No Time to Lose

Author: Peter Piot
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 039306316X
Category: Medical

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

The story of a microbiologist's remarkable career, from identifying athe Ebola virus to pioneering AIDS research and policy. Download No Time to Lose medical books for free.
/strong>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. Get No Time to Lose our bestseller medical books.

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