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6%OFFPeter Piot - No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses - 9780393345513 - V9780393345513
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No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses

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Description for No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses Paperback. As a young scientist, Peter Piot named a newly discovered virus "ebola." This is the story of his extraordinary career. Num Pages: 416 pages, 16 pages of illustrations. BIC Classification: BGTA; MMFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 432.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
387
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393345513
SKU
V9780393345513
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99-22

About Peter Piot
Peter Piot, MD, PhD, is the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, former undersecretary general of the United Nations, and former executive director of UNAIDS. He lives in London.

Reviews for No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
"An invaluable portrait of the evolution of international health in recent decades…We need more people like Peter Piot who will rise to the occasion with spirit and passion."
William Bynum - Wall Street Journal "[A] fascinating account of the complex behavioural responses that epidemics trigger among their human hosts."
José Esparza - Nature "From laboratories to field epidemiology, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses


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