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A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
W.W. Norton & Co.
June 2012
On Sale: May 28, 2012
304 pages
ISBN: 039306316X
EAN: 9780393063165
Kindle: B007HXL27S
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The story of a microbiologist’s remarkable career, from
identifying the Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and
policy. 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 and
director of UNAIDS, he negotiated policies with leaders from
Fidel Castro to Thabo Mbeki and helped turn the tide of the
epidemic. Candid and engrossing, No Time to Lose captures
the urgency and excitement of being on the front lines in
the fight against today’s deadliest diseases.
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