No Time to Lose : : a Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses
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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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Fascinating book submitted by asiangirl on August 31, 2012, 7:26pm This is a well written, captivating novel about one man's career and life choices pursuing science. Hurray science!
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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: xi, 387 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780393063165
039306316X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Marshall, Ruth, 1961-
SUBJECTS
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) -- History.