No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses / Peter Piot with Ruth Marshall.
By: Piot, Peter.
Contributor(s): Marshall, Ruth.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2012Edition: 1st ed.General Notes: Includes index.Description: xi, 387 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.ISBN: 9780393063165 (hbk.) :; 039306316X (hbk.).Other title: Life in pursuit of deadly viruses.Subject(s): Piot, Peter, 1949- | Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS | Diagnostic microbiology | Communicable diseases -- Treatment | Communicable diseases -- Africa | Medical virology | Ebola virus disease -- History | Virology | AIDS (Disease) -- HistoryDDC classification: 616.9/101Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 616.9101 P659 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003134806 |
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Includes index.
A blue flask 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 transmission of infection -- America and back -- Nairobi -- A new epidemic -- Project 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.
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