Item Five.

Vocabulary. communicable, SARS, Vietnam-France Hospital, Hanoi, Carlo Urbani.

On February 28th, 2003, the Vietnam-France Hospital in Hanoi asked Carlo Urbani for help.

The Italian doctor was an expert on communicable diseases.

He was based in Vietnam for the world Health Organization.

The Hospital asked Dr Urbani to help identify an unusual infection.

He recognized it as a new threat.

He made sure other hospitals increased their infection-control measures.

On March 11th, Dr Urbani developed signs of severe acute respiratory syndrome.

Four days later, the World Health Organization declared it a worldwide health threat.

Carlo Urbani was the first doctor to warn the world of the disease that became known as SARS.

He died of it on March 29th, 2003.

He was 46 years old.