Continuing coverage: The UTMB, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and three other groups within the National Institutes of Health have formed an interdisciplinary research team that now reports a new breakthrough to counteract the deadly Nipah virus. “What makes this study unique is that we have achieved complete protection against death even in animals that received treatment five days after being infected with the Nipah virus when they otherwise would have succumbed within 8-10 days of infection,” according to Thomas Geisbert, UTMB professor and lead author of the paper. “This recent success of the antibody therapy against Nipah virus disease in a nonhuman primate is a key step towards its development as a therapeutic for use in people.”