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Wed 04 Apr 2003An Italian village is in mourning for a pioneering medical native son
ITALY: Carlo Urbani was dedicated to making healthcare available to the deprived. Paddy Agnew in Rome reports
The little village of Castelplanio, near Ancona on the Adriatic coast, will today turn out en masse for the funeral of Dr Carlo Urbani, the World Health Organisation officer who first identified the potentially fatal pneumonia SARS, a disease that has so far affected nearly 1,900 people in 18 countries, killing 63.
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