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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