Tuesday 26 August 2014

'Perfect storm' for Ebola to spread, says virus pioneer

Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, seen at his office in central London on July 30, 2014 Peter Piot, the Belgian scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, on Tuesday said a "perfect storm" in West Africa had given the disease a chance to spread unchecked. "We have never seen an (Ebola) epidemic on this scale," Piot was quoted by the French daily Liberation as saying. "In the last six months, we have been witnessing what can be described as a 'perfect storm' -- everything is there for it to snowball."




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