The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

  • March 6, 2018
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The virus hunter: In a bygone era, C.J. Peters learned how to bend the rules

At 77, Clarence James Peters, known as C.J., is getting on, walking with more deliberate steps than in his earlier years. But he can still recount in sharp detail anecdotes from a career in which he flew through mountain passes to perilous landing strips and trudged to remote villages. By the time he returned home, he had stolen from Mother Nature some of the secrets of diseases including Bolivian hemorrhagic fever and Rift Valley fever.

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