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<p class="MsoNormal"><font style="font-size: 12pt;" size="3"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Condolences for Richard Titus:</span></b></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><i>Omar</i> (<a href="mailto:ohamarsheh@gmail.com">ohamarsheh@gmail.com</a>)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I am really sorry to hear about Richard,
the sand fly community missed a distinguished scientist. His contribution to
sand fly and Leishmania fields will be printed in minds of all who knew him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:PT-BR">S<i>ergio Mendonça</i><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>(</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:mendonca@ioc.fiocruz.br"><span style="mso-ansi-language:
PT-BR" lang="PT-BR">mendonca@ioc.fiocruz.br</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:
PT-BR">)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This is very sad news.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I had the chance of knowing Rich well
during the more than one year that we worked together in Jacques Louis lab in Lausanne. He was leaving
while I was arriving, and he taught me a lot. Besides being a brilliant
scientist and a hard worker, he was a simple and friendly guy.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>I feel very sorry for his family and for the
leishmaniac community.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:PT-BR"><i>Manoel </i>(</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:mbarralnetto@icloud.com">mbarralnetto@icloud.com</a>)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Really sad
news. I also knew Richard for a long time and deeply lament his early death.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:PT-BR"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:PT-BR"><i>C1audia</i> (</span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:brodskyn@bahia.fiocruz.br"><span style="mso-ansi-language:PT-BR" lang="PT-BR">brodskyn@bahia.fiocruz.br</span></a></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:PT-BR">)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">It is really sad news. I worked at Titus's
lab from 1997 to 2000 and I have wonderful memories from this time. Richard was
great, trying to help us all the time. I learned a lot at his lab and we shared
also good parties and barbecues.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">I miss him a lot.</span></p>
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