--- title: Expert: Ebola Will Probably Last All of Next Year description: Professor Peter Piot still says he is encouraged by the progress made in Sierra Leone, where he believes the epidemic will soon peak canonical: https://time.com/3646542/peter-piot-london-school-of-hygiene-ebola-2015/ author: Per Liljas article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-24T07:56:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T21:02:19.000Z article:section: Health og:title: Ebola Will Probably Last All of Next Year og:description: WHO Ebola chief says the epidemic will soon peak. og:url: https://time.com/3646542/peter-piot-london-school-of-hygiene-ebola-2015/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96e1858d99e8321a/69877729a988ca82f56ab976/rtr4iv57.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1651 og:image:height: 929 og:image:alt: RTR4IV57 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Ebola Will Probably Last All of Next Year twitter:description: WHO Ebola chief says the epidemic will soon peak. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt96e1858d99e8321a/69877729a988ca82f56ab976/rtr4iv57.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Expert: Ebola Outbreak Will Probably Last All of Next Year > Sponsored content. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:02 PM UTCPublished: Dec 24, 2014 7:56 AM UTC  Professor Peter Piot still says he is encouraged by the progress made in Sierra Leone, where he believes the epidemic will soon peak Professor Peter Piot still says he is encouraged by the progress made in Sierra Leone, where he believes the epidemic will soon peak Baz Ratner—Reuters by [Per Liljas](https://time.com/author/per-liljas/) ## Per Liljas Updated: Dec 13, 2023 9:02 PM UTCPublished: Dec 24, 2014 7:56 AM UTC **Correction appended: Dec. 24, 2014, 7:00 a.m. E.T.** The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is likely to [continue](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30595352) through 2015, says Professor Peter Piot, director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. “We need to be ready for a long effort, a sustained effort \[for\] probably the rest of 2015,” he told the BBC after returning from Sierra Leone. Piot, who was one of the scientists who discovered Ebola in 1976, said he was impressed by the progress he had seen in the country, where mortality rates have fallen to as low as one in three. “You don’t see any longer the scenes where people are dying in the streets,” he said. But although the outbreak has peaked in Liberia and probably will do so in Sierra Leone too in the coming few weeks, the epidemic could have a “very long tail and a bumpy tail.” “The Ebola epidemic is still very much there,” he said. “People are still dying, new cases are being detected.” \[[_BBC_](http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-30595352)\] _The previous version of this article identified Peter Piot as the director of the World Health Organization. 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