No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses /

Piot, Peter, 1949-

No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses / Life in pursuit of deadly viruses Peter Piot with Ruth Marshall. - 1st edition - New York : W.W. Norton & Company, c2012. - xi, 387 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

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.

9780393063165 (hardcover) 039306316X (hbk.)

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Piot, Peter, 1949-


Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.


Virology--Belgium--Autobiography.
Virology--England--Autobiography.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history--Belgium.
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history--England.
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--history--Belgium.
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--history--England.
History, 20th Century--Belgium.
History, 20th Century--England.
History, 21st Century--Belgium.
History, 21st Century--England.
International Cooperation--Belgium--Autobiography.
International Cooperation--England--Autobiography.

QR359.72.P56 / A3 2012

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