Peter Piot, who discovered Ebola, describes trying to contain an outbreak of the disease

1,855 views · Published 27 October 2014 · 2:52 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: Sky News · 2014 · News & Politics

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In an interview from July 2014, Peter Piot, now Director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, explains the part of the process of containing an outbreak. 

In 1976, Piot helped to bring to an end to the first known outbreak of Ebola in Zaire. 

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