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Carlo Urbani, president of the Italian chapter of Médecins Sans Frontières and one of the individuals who accepted the 1999 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of that organization, dies.
Urbani received his doctorate of medicine from the
..... Click the link for more information. was formerly the group's President President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. Etymologically, a "president" is one who presides, who sits in leadership (from Latin prae- "before" + sedere "to sit"). Originally, the term usually referred to the presiding officer of a ceremony or meeting; but today it most commonly refers to an official with executive powers.
..... Click the link for more information. ; he died of severe acute respiratory syndrome
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) is an atypical form of pneumonia that first appeared in November 2002 in Guangdong Province, China.
After the People's Republic of China suppressed all news of the outbreak both internally and abroad, it spread rapidly, reaching neighboring Hong Kong and Vietnam in late February 2003, and then to other countries via international travel of infected persons. The last case in this outbreak occurred in June, 2003. In the outbreak, SARS caused 8,069 cases of disease and 775 deaths.
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