"If I cannot work in such situations, what am I here for - answering e-mails, going to cocktail parties, and pushing paper?". Theses were the famous lines said by the Dr. Carlo Urbani who first identified Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003 and prevented its epidemic. This article remembers the Braveheart physician who sacrificed his life to save others from the deadly disease outbreak. Dr. Carlo Urbani was born in Italy in 1956.
He graduated in medicine in 1981 from the University of Ancona and further specialized in infectious and tropical disease from the University of Messina. Later, Dr. Urbani completed his post-graduation in tropical parasitology in 1984. The career in medicine: Initially, Dr. Urbani was busy in his practice at the university and later in the ‘80s got more involved with the challenges of international health management. To control the parasitic…
