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

by Peter Piot

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039306316X
• ISBN13: 9780393063165
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 387 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.2" x 9.5"