No time to lose
Subtitle: a life in pursuit of deadly viruses
By: Peter Piot
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780393063165
Subjects: Autobiography; History, 21st Century; International Cooperation; Virology; Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever; Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS; History, 20th Century; Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; History
Other titles: Life in pursuit of deadly viruses
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A blue thermos of virus; title: Adventure at last; title: The mission in Yambuku; title: Ebola; title: A pseudo outbreak and a helicopter; title: The big team; title: From Ebola to sex and the tansmission of infection; title: America and back; title: Nairobi; title: A new epidemic; title: Projet SIDA; title: Yambuku one more time; title: The unfolding of an epidemic; title: Changing of the guard; title: An international bureaucrat; title: Sharks in the water; title: Getting the basics right; title: The lesson of the chameleon/bringing together the brilliant coalition; title: The tipping point; title: The price of life; title: A war chest for AIDS; title: An unfinished agenda.