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More Vaccines, Fewer Shots: Scientist Who Helped Create Ebola Vaccine On Current Outbreak And The Future Of Vaccines

Dr. Gary Kobinger
Mark Brodie/KJZZ
Dr. Gary Kobinger

It’s been about a year since the latest Ebola outbreak started in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In that time, the World Health Organization said there have been more than 2,600 cases of the disease, and more than 1,700 deaths attributed to it.

Dr. Gary Kobinger, who has visited the country, is the director of the Infectious Disease Research Center at Laval University in Quebec and helped create the Ebola vaccine. He’s also been working on a vaccine for Zika virus.

He was in the Phoenix metro area recently for a conference on vaccines, and The Show had the chance to sit down with him.

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Mark Brodie is a co-host of The Show, KJZZ’s locally produced news magazine. Since starting at KJZZ in 2002, Brodie has been a host, reporter and producer, including several years covering the Arizona Legislature, based at the Capitol.