Title:
No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses / Peter Piot with Ruth Marshall.
Author:
Piot, Peter, 1949-
Marshall, Ruth, 1961-
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2012.
Call Number:
QR359.72 .P56 A3 2012
Abstract:
A microbiologist describes his adventure-filled career, discussing his time spent in Central Africa in the 1970s identifying the Ebola virus and his work there again in the 1980s as part of the area's first international AIDS efforts.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393063165
Physical Description:
xi, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
General Note:
Includes index.
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Contents:
A blue thermos of virus -- Adventure at last -- The mission in Yambuku -- Ebola -- A pseudo outbreak and a helicopter -- The big team -- From Ebola to sex and the tansmission of infection -- America and back -- Nairobi -- A new epidemic -- Projet SIDA -- Yambuku one more time -- The unfolding of an epidemic -- Changing of the guard -- An international bureaucrat -- Sharks in the water -- Getting the basics right -- The lesson of the chameleon/bringing together the brilliant coalition -- The tipping point -- The price of life -- A war chest for AIDS -- An unfinished agenda.
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