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Italian World Health Organization (news - web sites) expert on communicable diseases, Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, is seen in this undated image made from television. Urbani, credited with being the first doctor to identify the mystery illness SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome), died of the illness in Bangkok, Thailand, Saturday, March 29, 2003.
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We live in a messed up world, where there are too many people who wave flags, shoot guns, and blow themselves up with bombs to be 'heroes'. Here is a doctor for the WHO who sounded the alarm and treated the first known patient, and who knowingly exposed himself to the risk and gave his life.
The former category are a dime a dozen, but it always makes me a little sad when guys like this fall. I know that his particular contribution was a little too small for a Nobel Prize, but it would be a classy thing to do for them to acknowledge his sacrifice and that of others like him at this years ceremony.
BTW, he does look like a younger John Rhys-Davies.
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