Stopping a real-life ‘Contagion’

Antibody treatment fends off lethal Hendra virus in monkeys

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.