September 26, 2026 — 5:00am
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Fifty years ago, Sir Peter Piot opened a mysterious package sent to his Belgian lab containing a thermos. With no protective gear besides latex gloves, the young microbiologist unscrewed it and found a slurry of half-melted ice, the shards of a broken test tube, clotted blood, and ink running from a handwritten note.
The letters could still be deciphered: the blood, a physician had written from a clinic in Kinshasa, now the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was from a Belgian nun struck down by…
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