Dallas faced an unprecedented public health scare in the fall of 2014 when a Liberian national was diagnosed with the Ebola virus. 四虎影院 is exploring lessons learned 鈥� and taking a deeper look at what happened last year 鈥� in a"
There鈥檚 a timeline of Ebola-related events, voices of those most affected by the virus, and much more.
One of the stories focuses on efforts in Austin to develop an Ebola vaccine.
An Austin biotech company made headlines when it took blood from Dallas nurse Amber Vinson to develop an Ebola vaccine. It sounded simple, but learned that creating a vaccine for a mysterious disease isn鈥檛 easy.
specializes in isolating natural antibodies, which are blood proteins that fight foreign substances in the body. So when company president John Simard learned about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, he had to do something.
Simard went there, but he ran into a major roadblock.
鈥淚 realized it was very difficult for us to operate there,鈥� he says. 鈥淭here鈥檚 not much infrastructure. In fact, I was very surprised at how little infrastructure there was. And I didn鈥檛 see that we actually as a company could work there.鈥�
Simard says he came back defeated. But then there was an opportunity: Ebola was in Dallas.
About 'Surviving Ebola'
On Wednesday at 2 p.m. on 四虎影院 90.1 FM, explore what happened in Dallas 鈥� and the lessons hospitals and governments learned 鈥� in 鈥�
The hour-long special also airs Friday at 7 p.m. on 90.1 FM.
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