Doctor who ID’d SARS dies of it.
[O.K. I’m getting more freaked by the minute. -Thomas]
U.N. doctor who identified SARS dies of illness
Sharp rise in cases of mystery illness spreads fear in Hong Kong
MIN LEE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
HONG KONG - Fear gripped Hong Kong as the number of people suffering from a deadly flu-like disease increased sharply today. Thousands of people donned surgical masks but many more refused to venture out and activity in the usually bustling city ground to a halt.
Also, the first doctor to realize that the world was dealing with an unfamiliar disease died of the illness in Thailand today. Italian Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, a World Health Organization expert on communicable diseases, became infected while working in Vietnam, where he diagnosed an American businessman hospitalized in Hanoi, Vietnam, the U.N. agency said. The businessman later died.
Since then severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has claimed more than 50 lives around the world and sickened almost 1,500 people, mostly in Asia. There were 59 cases of SARS in the United States and at least 35 in Canada, where three people have died