He alerted World to the disease, now...
Bug warrior pays with his life

DR CARLO Urbani, the scientist who first discovered that a dangerous new microbe was beginning to spread around the globe, succumbed on Saturday, in a Bangkok hospital bed, to the frightening disease he alerted the world to.

It was the 46-year-old, an Italian epidemiologist at the World Health Organisation's (WHO) office in Hanoi, Vietnam, who first responded last month when anxious hospital officials phoned to report that a sick American businessman was infecting doctors and nurses with a strange pneumonia.
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