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  Monday  March 31  2003    02: 18 AM

the kind of hero that the world needs right now

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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