1. Carlo Urbani subsequently earned a postgraduate degree in tropical parasitology.
11 Facts About Carlo Urbani
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Carlo Urbani started volunteering for the African endemic disease cause since young joining the Italian Catholic NGO Mani Tese.
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Carlo Urbani helped launch a campaign against multinational pharmaceutical companies that keep up the price of indispensable medicines against AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis.
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Back in Asia, Carlo Urbani was called into The French Hospital of Hanoi, Vietnam, in late February 2003 to look at an American patient, businessman Johnny Chen, who had fallen ill with what doctors thought was a bad case of influenza.
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Carlo Urbani realized that Chen's ailment was probably a new and highly contagious disease.
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Carlo Urbani immediately notified the WHO, triggering a response to the epidemic that ended it within five months.
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Carlo Urbani persuaded the Vietnamese Health Ministry to begin isolating patients and screening travelers, thus slowing the early pace of the epidemic.
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On 11 March 2003, as he flew from Hanoi to a conference in Bangkok, Thailand, where he was to talk on the subject of childhood parasites, Carlo Urbani started feeling feverish.
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Carlo Urbani had contracted SARS while treating infected patients in Hanoi.
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Carlo Urbani died on 29 March 2003, after 18 days of intensive care.
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Carlo Urbani married Giuliana Chiorrini in 1983, and in 1987 their first child, Tommaso, was born.