The Belgian doctor Peter PIOT was part of the team that discovered the ebola disease in 1976, and is now at the forefront fighting the epidemic outbreak of ebola in Western Africa. He is chair of the newly set-up Science Committee at the World Health Organization. Prof. Dr. Piot, next to discovering Ebola, fought much of his professional life against the spread of infectious diseases, including HIV/AIDS. He was also a founding director of UNAIDS; and led the organization for 10 years. You can watch an interview with Dr Piot in the BBC Program HardTalk of October 4th 2014: youtube/watch?v=01iSy0Zwk3Q. If you want to know more about the intruiging story of the discovery of the disease, click this link: bbc/news/magazine-28262541. Read about Dr. Piot’s take on the 2014 outbreak in an interview in The Guardian:theguardian/…/ebola-zaire-peter-piot-outbreak.
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 08:26:10 +0000
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