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Public health: Beating Ebola

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Peter Piot ponders two books on the epidemic that offer important lessons from an avoidable catastrophe.

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  1. Peter Piot is director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and a professor of global health. He was part of the team that isolated the Ebola virus, as described in No Time To Lose.,

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