Quote: When the samples were received, Peter Piot, the 27-year-old medical graduate and his colleagues, among other things, placed the blood samples under an electron microscope. Piot: “We saw a gigantic worm like structure — gigantic by viral standards. It’s a very unusual shape for a virus, only one other virus looked like that and that was the Marburg virus.” But the new “virus” needed a name. Piot relates the interesting tale of how Ebola came to be named as Ebola: Endquote. Because it could not be Marburg virus, heh, Peter. Marburg virus was traceble to Behringswerke AG -> Hoechst AG -> German government AG. It may have produced the same symptoms and may have used the same pathway and it may look exactly like Marburg virus but it just cannot be. Peter even decided that it wasn't the same species and invented a new genus for it and nobody in the medical world raised any questions. Instead of being disgraced or even corrected Peter skyrocketed through the medical ranks (see his Wiki page) and was even made a baron by the Belgian king as wel as being choosen the 'Greatest Belgian' and receiving knighthoods from several countries. Would anyone like a cookie? Endquote
Become a baron for naming a random African virus
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