19th century advances paved way for today's Ebola treatment

The antibody treatment given to two American missionaries infected with the Ebola virus may seem like a modern day miracle cure, but researchers created similar, if cruder, antibody therapies as far back as the 1880s to treat diphtheria and pneumonia, according to a new paper written by Scott Podolsky, associate professor of global health and social medicine and director of the Center for the History of Medicine at HMS.

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