Keith is on location at the Galveston National Laboratory (GNL) at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas, to talk to the facility's director, James LeDuc. LeDuc had an interesting career prior to his current post, including earning a degree in Zoology, spending a period of time collecting samples for the Smithsonian, serving in the U.S. Army, and dedicating himself to public health. LeDuc talks about the viruses the GNL studies, and explains the different biological safety levels in which the lab technicians work. He also touches upon the difficulty in designing a generic vaccine for the flu virus, and the history of the Ebola virus in humans. http://www.utmb.edu/gnl/
Aired Nov. 16, 2014.