Carlo Urbani was an Italian physician and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as a new and dangerously contagious disease. His early warning to the World Health Organization (WHO) touched off a massive response that probably helped save the lives of millions of people around the world. In 2003, Urbani was called in to a Vietnamese hospital to look at patient Johnny Chen, … Wikipedia
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