‘Against all odds’: The inside story of how scientists across three continents produced an Ebola vaccine

‘Against all odds’: The inside story of how scientists across three continents produced an Ebola vaccine

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In the spring of 2014, as Ebola exploded across West Africa, a scientist named Gary Kobinger was following the news intently from Canada.

Kobinger was the head of the special pathogens unit at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg. He and the team he led had a well-deserved reputation for their work on Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers; Kobinger himself had led development of a promising Ebola therapy.