(1) As Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Guardian last week : “What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees.” Medecins Sans Frontieres, whose volunteer doctors had begun to treat Ebola cases as soon as the outbreak was officially diagnosed in March – three months after the first case – had warned WHO in strong terms that this outbreak was different from previous ones.
(2) While in the past Ebola outbreaks have been self-limiting, this outbreak may be different, argues Peter Piot.
(3) What should be [the] WHO’s strongest regional office because of the enormity of the health challenges, is actually the weakest technically, and full of political appointees,” said Piot.
(4) They clearly underestimated the situation, partly because the African office dropped the ball, partly because member states, including the UK, cut [the] WHO’s budget for emergencies and haemorrhagic fevers (as proposed by WHO management),” said Piot.
(5) It was there that Peter Piot, currently director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine but then a young infectious disease expert, first encountered the virus and together with colleagues decided to name it after a river that flowed through the district.
(6) There is a particular need for trained nurses, clinicians, diagnostic laboratory technicians and sanitation experts, Piot told the school.
(7) In 1976 a thermos of blood from a Flemish nun who had died in Zaire arrived at the Antwerp lab where Peter Piot, the great microbiologist , was training.
(8) WHO's latest figures put the death toll at 1,552, almost as many as the combined death toll of the 26 outbreaks since Piot's discovery 48 years ago and has warned that the current spread could affect 20,000 before it is contained.
(9) We already have a lost year of schooling, of economic growth, and of lost confidence so we must not be rose-tinted about the challenge over the next decade.” Fighting Ebola requires a culture change in the west, as well as west Africa | Peter Piot and David Miliband Read more Despite a clear trend of declining Ebola cases, a 15 April deadline for eradicating the disease set by regional leaders is considered optimistic by many in the development community.
(10) If that happens, the region could be a reservoir for the spread of the virus, not only to other parts of Africa, but also the rest of the world, said Piot and Jeremy Farrar, the director of the Wellcome Trust, in the New England Journal .
(11) First of all, nobody expected Ebola to pop up in west Africa – you only find what you are looking for,” said Prof Peter Piot, head of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
(12) Prof Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who chaired the panel, said: “We need to strengthen core capacities in all countries to detect, report and respond rapidly to small outbreaks, in order to prevent them from becoming large-scale emergencies.
(13) Later that year Piot travelled to Zaire where he played a key role in containing the Ebola outbreak that killed 280 of the 318 people it infected.
(14) And Peter Piot, a microbiologist famous for discovering Ebola in the 1970s, stated recently that the reuse of syringes in west African hospitals was a major cause of the spread of the virus at the tail end of last year.
(15) A similar appeal at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine by its director, Professor Peter Piot, has resulted in 35 staff volunteering so far.
(16) Prof Peter Piot, now director of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: "This well designed trial in non-human primates provides the most convincing evidence to date that ZMapp may be an effective treatment of Ebola infection in humans.
(17) Societies that were being rebuilt after civil war have been devastated by Ebola and will need rebuilding once the epidemic is finally under control, said Piot, who believes the World Health Organisation has been too slow to respond.
Pivot
Definition:
(n.) A fixed pin or short axis, on the end of which a wheel or other body turns.
(n.) The end of a shaft or arbor which rests and turns in a support; as, the pivot of an arbor in a watch.
(n.) Hence, figuratively: A turning point or condition; that on which important results depend; as, the pivot of an enterprise.
(n.) The officer or soldier who simply turns in his place whike the company or line moves around him in wheeling; -- called also pivot man.
(v. t.) To place on a pivot.
Example Sentences:
(1) Excessive accumulation of hydrogen ions in the brain may play a pivotal role in initiating the necrosis seen in infarction and following hyperglycemic augmentation of ischemic brain damage.
(2) The function of motherese has become a pivotal issue in the language-learning literature.
(3) Glucose is the principal source for energy production in the brain, and undisturbed glucose metabolism is pivotally significant for normal function of this organ.
(4) Currently employed clinical indicators of perfusion provide inadequate warning of developing hazards caused by marginal perfusion in certain vital organs or "peripheral" tissues that are pivotal to postsurgical wound healing.
(5) Endobronchial biopsy and bronchial lavage studies following inhaled PAF did not show any increase in the number of activation of eosinophils, which are pivotal in the pathogenesis of BHR.
(6) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
(7) It was the introduction of Aluko that proved pivotal.
(8) This article discusses the effect of existing statutes and case law on three pivotal questions: To what sort of information are people entitled?
(9) It has been generally accepted that the deregulation of oncogenes or their regulators play a pivotal role in progression of this prevalent disease.
(10) The fact that Fraser suggested Pinter write one of the pivotal scenes, in which Emma challenges Jerry to leave his wife, was a revelation, he says.
(11) Marine Rotational Force – Darwin” (MRF-D) is one of four American marine air ground task forces (MAGTFs) in the Asia-Pacific region, along with those in Guam, Hawaii and Okinawa, the sum of which make up a central strategic pillar of the pivot.
(12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I’m president, they’re not’: Donald Trump at rally in Washington Trump is “much more resilient” than his opponents allow, said Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, before pivoting to a plug for his new book, Understanding Trump .
(13) Twitter has become pivotal in organising anti-government dissent in the past year: the Occupy Gezi movement, which marches against the recently passed internet censorship bill that allows the government to block any content within four hours without a court order, and the massive street protest and the funeral attended by hundreds of thousands after the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan , were initiated via social media.
(14) Verbal and non verbal communication skills (with the patient and the team) are pivotal in this approach; relatives are considered partners in the care of the patient and an essential element of the caring environment.
(15) This year will mark the start of a pivotal chapter for development as the UN finalises ambitious goals this autumn to improve all lives and secure a healthy planet.
(16) The 5' cap structure of eucaryotic mRNA plays a pivotal role in mRNA metabolism.
(17) Thirty years after one of the pivotal clashes in the miners' strike of 1984 when violent confrontations erupted at the Orgreave coking plant, the area outside Sheffield could barely look more different.
(18) Arthritic symptoms were present at operation in thirty patients, while thirty-four had no postoperative objective signs of pivot shift or instability.
(19) Two lines of evidence indicate that the general transcription factor TFIIB is a pivotal component in the mechanism by which an acidic activator functions.
(20) If cortical actin filaments are disrupted with dihydrocytochalasin B, processes form that are similar to those induced by dBcAMP suggesting that the disruption of the cortical actin network is the pivotal step in process formation.