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This should be the last Ebola outbreak without a treatment, Canadian expert says

Gary Kobinger works in a mobile laboratory installed by specialists of the National Public Health Agency of Canada, which enables teams on the ground to conduct rapid and precise diagnosis of new suspected Ebola cases and other diseases, within two to six hours, in Mweka, Congo, Friday, Sept. 28, 2007. says he hopes the current outbreak in West Africa is remembered as the last time the world had to fight the virus without specific treatments or protective vaccines. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/WHO, Christopher Black, HO) A Canadian scientist who recently returned from the front lines of the West African Ebola outbreak says he hopes this is the last time the world has to combat the virus without specific treatments or protective vaccines. Dr. Gary Kobinger, chief of special pathogens at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, suggested this outbreak — the largest on record — will speed efforts to get emergency use approvals to employ some of the experimental vaccines and therapies in future Ebola epidemics. Next time, we'll be ready," Kobinger said in an interview Monday.




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