No Time to Lose A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

Name: No Time to Lose A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
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ISBN: 9780393063165

ISBN-10: 039306316X

ISBN-13: 9780393063165

Edition: 2012

Authors: Peter Piot

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When Peter Piot was in medical school, a professor warned, There’s no future in infectious diseases. They’ve all been solved. Fortunately, Piot ignored him, and the result has been an exceptional, adventure-filled career. In the 1970s, as a young man, Piot was sent to Central Africa as part of a team tasked with identifying a grisly new virus. Crossing into the quarantine zone on the most dangerous missions, he studied local customs to determine how this disease—the Ebola virus—was spreading. Later, Piot found himself in the field again when another mysterious epidemic broke out: AIDS. He traveled throughout Africa, leading the first international AIDS initiatives there. Then, as founder…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.60" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English



Preface






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



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


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Index