TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iranian American and award-winning computational geneticist at Harvard University, Pardis Sabeti, along with other Ebola fighters, were named TIME magazine�s 2014 Person of the Year.
The Ebola fighters were chosen for their bravery and efforts during a time when many others were reluctant to do so.

Sabeti first became intrigued by the Ebola virus after reading The Hot Zone. �It�s the type of thing you either read and say, �Oh wow, that�s terrifying,� or you read it and say, �Oh wow, I want to do that.� I read it and said, �Oh wow, I want to do that,� Sabeti explained in an interview with TIME.

Sabeti�s research tracked the mutations of the virus and determined that the disease was not being transmitted by animal contact, but rather human-to-human contact. The discovery gave a much needed boost to the containment strategy of the Ebola virus and helped develop treatments and vaccines for Ebola victims.

A contagious disease, Ebola has stricken the native populations of West Africa as well as the health-care workers who treat Ebola patients.

By ISNA

 

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