[ The thing about being a biologist is that he understands the full scope of everything she says.

And while he does look horrified at the number of deaths, he still, with his own experiences with lycanthropy relatively fresh in his mind— seeing what people and animals completely lost to a virus like that can be like, even faced with the possibility of being infected himself, with no hope of a cure, just an agonizing and delirious death— the scope of what maybe not curing something like that, but providing an effective enough treatment for her to be standing here and non-infectious means. ]

Oh, so you're basically what would be considered a medical miracle in any other world then, for the record. At least to anyone who understands even the tiniest bit of virology is concerned- and my virology was just enough to keep me from being infected with something a bit like that. [ He's understating how much of a role he had in preventing a widespread outbreak, but he really is just glad he survived and it doesn't occur to him to mention. ]