„It basically neutralizes the virus so it can‘t do any further damage,“ said Dr. Heinz Feldmann, chief of the U.S. National Institutes of Health‘s virology laboratory in Hamilton, Montana.

Feldmann previously oversaw the special pathogens program at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s national microbiology lab in Winnipeg and is an expert in hemorrhagic fever viruses such as Ebola, as well as other viruses.