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TIL that Italian doctor Carlo Urbani was largely responsible for the eradication of the SARS disease in China. When advised to stop exposing himself to patients, he replied, “If I can’t work in such situations, what am I here for? Answering e-mails, going to cocktail parties and pushing paper?”

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