No time to lose : a life in pursuit of deadly viruses / Peter Piot with Ruth Marshall.

Life in pursuit of deadly viruses

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2012], ©2012.

xi, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 25 cm

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.