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Chasing deadly viruses for a living

By Debora Mackenzie

4 July 2012

In his new autobiography, Peter Piot shares harrowing stories about a career spent pursuing the Ebola virus and HIV

See more: An illustrated version of this article will be published within the next two weeks on our CultureLab books and arts blog

Why write an autobiography?

There is a lot that is not in scientific publications or news reports about how we got where we are in the fight against AIDS, and I wanted to tell the story while my memory is still fresh. I have lived in a whirlwind of immediate events, and never had time to reflect on…

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