Discovering Ebola - Peter Piot

As West Africa struggles with the largest known outbreak of Ebola, Dr. Peter Piot shares how he helped discover and describe the virus' first known outbreak in 1976 Zaire. He's optimistic the current West African Ebola outbreaks won't reach pandemic-level as he describes humans as an "accidental host" to Ebola: it kills us too quickly to propagate successfully. Piot explains that Ebola is a virus that preys on poverty, because in the developed world, hospitals are well-equipped enough to contain its spread once the outbreak is recognized.