A report of a new treatment for a deadly virus might pass for a movie script — so much so that a version of it is already showing in a theater near you.
Pteropus fruit bats (also called flying foxes), which live throughout the Asian Pacific and elsewhere, carry and spread two related viruses called Hendra and Nipah.
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