History credits this man with discovering Ebola on his own. History is wrong

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If you ask Google who discovered Ebola, you will immediately be presented with a picture of Dr. Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

You will also find links to news article after news article identifying Piot — the former executive director of UNAIDS — as the man who discovered the deadly virus.

Amazon’s blurb on Piot’s 2012 memoir, “No Time To Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses,” even credits him with choosing Ebola’s name.

There’s a small problem here, however. Piot did not discover Ebola on his own — and depending on how you define discovery, may not be able to actually make the claim at all.

He definitely did not choose the name Ebola.

.....https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/14/history-ebola-peter-piot/

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1. He still deserves a lot of credit for risking his life going into

the ebola affected region to study what was happening.