Word: parasitologist
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When World Health Organization (WHO) parasitologist Carlo Urbani was treating the first cases of an unknown respiratory disease in the Hanoi-French Hospital in late February and March of 2003, he believed he might be facing the front end of an avian-flu epidemic. Dr. Olivier Cattin, the medical coordinator at the hospital, had alerted Urbani and told him the Chinese-American patient currently in the emergency ward suffering from high fever, severe muscular pains and labored breathing had possibly come down with the disease. Virologists in Hong Kong soon determined that the agent was a novel coronavirus...
...their marriage after changing his name to Henri and taking a fancy to all things French (including the Lewis' latest student), Daisy's comfortable, familiar life is turned upside down. Fear not for poor Daisy, though-less than 24 hours later she has already met a new man, a parasitologist named Truman Wolff. Ironically, Truman's daughter, Phoebe, is dating Daisy's son, Sammy, leading to a whole series of plot twists that give new meaning to the term symbiosis...