Peter Piot Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/peter-piot/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 25 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Peter Piot Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/peter-piot/ 32 32 Ebola fight will last all next year https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/ebola-fight-will-last-next-year/ Thu, 25 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/ebola-fight-will-last-next-year/ A scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus says the current outbreak that’s killed over 7 300 people in West Africa’s likely to last until the end of 2015. Peter Piot says he’s encouraged by progress made fighting the deadly haemorrhagic disease and by the promise of new anti-viral therapies. Peter Piot, who has just returned […]

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]]> A scientist who helped discover the Ebola virus says the current outbreak that’s killed over 7 300 people in West Africa’s likely to last until the end of 2015.

Peter Piot says he’s encouraged by progress made fighting the deadly haemorrhagic disease and by the promise of new anti-viral therapies.

Peter Piot, who has just returned from Sierra Leone warns that vaccines against Ebola will take time to develop.

Currently Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Piot notes the worst Ebola outbreak the world has seen has peaked in Liberia and is likely to peak in Sierra Leone in the next few weeks.

However the epidemic could have a very long and bumpy tail.

He says people are still dying, new cases are being detected.

The international medical community needs to be ready for a long, sustained effort probably for the rest of 2015.

 

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]]> Ebola pioneer sees paralles with HIV treatment https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/ebola-pioneer-sees-paralles-hiv-treatment/ Wed, 01 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/ebola-pioneer-sees-paralles-hiv-treatment/ The Belgian scientist who identified the Ebola virus 38 years ago says there are parallels with the treatment of HIV AIDS where he also did pioneering work. Peter Piot says the initial response to the diseases was denial and delay that unnecessarily cost lives Ends Intro Peter Piot notes that both HIV and Ebola come […]

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]]> The Belgian scientist who identified the Ebola virus 38 years ago says there are parallels with the treatment of HIV AIDS where he also did pioneering work.
Peter Piot says the initial response to the diseases was denial and delay that unnecessarily cost lives
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Peter Piot notes that both HIV and Ebola come from animals. The former from chimpanzees and the latter from bats.
He tells the BBC programme Hardtalk that in both cases the response to treating the diseases was slow.
Fighting HIV required the provision of new, affordable drugs on a large scale.
(Take in Piot clip here)
He says in treating both diseases it’s necessary to change the way people behave.

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