Keith is on location at the Galveston National Laboratory, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston TX. He talks with Thomas Geisbert, an infectious disease researcher at the GNL, who was the co-discoverer of the Reston strain of Ebola, made famous in the bestselling book "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston. Geisbert talks about this first encounter with Ebola, and how the GNL is working to develop vaccines and treatments for this devastating disease. Geisbert also describes why the virus is so difficult to contract, and why the virus must be stopped at its source - Africa.
Aired Nov. 23, 2014.
