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Piot, Peter, 1949-
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Piot, Peter, 1949-
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Diagnostic microbiology.
Communicable diseases -- Treatment.
Communicable diseases -- Africa.
Medical virology.
Ebola virus disease -- History.
Virology.
AIDS (Disease) -- History.
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No time to lose : a ...
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No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses / Peter Piot with Ruth Marshall.
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Piot, Peter, 1949-
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Subjects
Piot, Peter, 1949-
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
Diagnostic microbiology.
Communicable diseases -- Treatment.
Communicable diseases -- Africa.
Medical virology.
Ebola virus disease -- History.
Virology.
AIDS (Disease) -- History.
ISBN:
9780393063165 (hbk.) :
039306316X (hbk.)
Description:
xi, 387 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Edition:
1st ed.
Contents:
A blue flask 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 transmission of infection -- America and back -- Nairobi -- A new epidemic -- Project 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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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.
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Hawaii State Library
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616.9101 Pi
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