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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 ed. - New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012. - xi, 387 p. : ill., ports.

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.

UNEDITED/Tomas/2013/Feb

ISBN: 9780393063165 (hardcover)

LCCN: 2012011911

Subjects--Personal Names:
Piot, Peter, 1949-

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Virology
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome--history
Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola--history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
International Cooperation

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Belgium
England

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Personal Narratives

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2012 F-351 WZ 100 2012PI