On March 29, 2003, the Italian doctor Carlo Urbani, head of the WHO pandemic investigative unit, died in Hong Kong due to the very first form of Sars.
Before dying because he came into contact with a case of atypical pneumonia that hit an American businessman, Urbani was the first doctor to isolate the virus and sound the alarm to the authorities, realizing that it was something never seen before and avoiding thus a worldwide pandemic.
In the non-fiction TV series "Ossi di Seppia, The noise of memory", which will air from March 29 on Raiplay, exactly 18 years after Urbani's death, it is his wife, Giuliana Chiorrini, who tells the story of this hero doctor .
Urbani, who was head of the WHO pandemic investigative unit, died of Sars in Bangkok on March 29, 2003. Thanks to his work, to having identified the symptoms, to the knowledge that it was a contagious viral disease capable of to rapidly evolve into life-threatening pneumonia has saved thousands of lives.
Among the twenty-six episodes also retrace the tragedy of Rigopiano and the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.
And again the sudden death of the footballer Davide Astori and that of Dj Fabo.
The Fukushima nuclear disaster and the Seveso accident.