By: Bahar Gholipour
Published: 10/10/2014 11:35 AM EDT on LiveScience The Ebola virus that’s causing the devastating outbreak in West Africa didn’t even have a name just 38 years ago when it first surfaced and caused a mysterious illness among villagers in Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo. The international team of scientists who were tasked with investigating that 1976 Ebola outbreak were shocked at the sight of the virus and the disease it caused, Dr. Peter Piot, co-discoverer of the virus, recalls in his memoir “No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses.” …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
