[leish-l] A Parasitologist's Pride

[K.P. Chang]

I am deeply saddened to hear the death of your colleague, Dr. Carlo
Urbani, in the line of his duty, as he worked on SARS in Southeast Asia.
I share with you the feeling of a greart  loss and grievance.

KP

Jeffrey J Shaw wrote:

>
> Everybody was bitterly shocked when they heard that the WHO scientist,
> Carlo Urbani, who discovered that a dangerous new microbe was
> beginning to spread around the globe, died of the same disease, now
> known as SARS, in a Bangkok hospital on the 29th March 2003. However,
> it was with great pride that I learnt that Carlo was an expert in
> parasitic diseases of schoolchildren who had worked in Cambodia, Laos
> and Vietnam. His insight into the transmission SARS, and the
> preventative measures that this led to have saved an incalculable
> number of lives throughout the world, but sadly not his own.
>           Would he have done this without his intimate understanding
> of the way parasites are transmitted?
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