Doctor Who ID'd Mystery Illness Dies

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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (news - web sites) doctor who first identified the outbreak of a global mystery illness died of the disease Saturday.

Italian Dr. Carlo Urbani, 46, a WHO expert on communicable diseases, died in Thailand, where he was being treated after becoming infected while working in Vietnam, the U.N. agency said.

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Looks more and more as if people working at the bedside are every bit as much heros as the soldiers in the front lines.

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(squirms uncomfortably) GULP! I was in York Central Hospital a few days after they moved that SARS patient there, AND most of our patients come from either York Central or Markham Stouffville, both of which have been closed.

Scary stuff, real scary.... :o I'm glad the Ontario government is taking such drastic action to contain it. I just hope it's not too late.

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oh man ....... I'm trying desperately not to let this get to me but everyday the news gets worse and worse......

I agree that the government is doing a good thing but honestly , they have warned ppl travelling that they will have to answer health related questions and they may not be able to travel if they have been sick , so who is going to be honest about that I wonder?? Sadly I dont think too many ppl will fess up that they have been sick if it interferes with their own plans.....

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Specializes in ER, ICU, Corrections.

We all have to be very careful and make sure that the hospitals protect us when we are taking care of people that are suspected of having a respiratory infection. This new disease is very scary indeed.

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Specializes in Peds, Pre and post op.

Yowsers! As a student this scares me because at our clinical assignment the hospital seems more worried about patient confidentiality (HIPPA year) than about warning healthcare workers about respiratory infections (thier was a patient w/ MRSA of the sputum w/ no warnings on the door) Oh dear oh dear

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This is getting worse by the day and scares me.

Here are some links

Second GTA Hospital shut down

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-29-0002.html

Disease panic growing

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-29-0004.html

Hotlines flooded

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-29-0035.html

Ailing flyers urged to stay

http://www.canoe.ca/torontoNews/ts.ts-03-29-0037.html

Asian stores bitten

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-29-0043.html

Asian cases sore

http://www.canoe.ca/torontoNews/ts.ts-03-29-0045.html

Isolation of 2 BuffaloPlayers

http://www.canoe.ca/torontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0004.html

SARS evolving:Experts

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0005.html

Lending Hand

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0006.html

Treating people gets scary too

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0009.html

Patient Zero

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0024.html

TO'S trail of disease

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0026.html

Chinese stores hit hard by fears

http://www.canoe.ca/torontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0027.html

Drs. harder to see

http://www.canoe.ca/TorontoNews/ts.ts-03-30-0028.html

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Thank you sixes for all those links. Thanks to everyone who has recognized the scope of the disease and is trying to contain it. Especially thanks to the Canadians, seems Canada is first goverment to identify and react strongly enough. Seems like large scale denial in other countries has added to the spread.

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Has any of you read Steven Kings book The Stand? This is very scary stuff here.

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Hes a former colleague and will be missed by the all of us who know him .

Hats off to you all in Vietnam WHO office.

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