happened last week, but not much on it in qresear.ch
HOW DID HE DIE???
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/sherif-zaki-cdc-pathologist-who-studied-infectious-diseases-dies-at-65/ar-AAR6FjL
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/04/science/sherif-r-zaki-dead.html
Sherif Zaki, CDC disease detective, is dead at age 65
NPR
November 30, 2021 at 4:48 PM EST
DISCUSSION:
MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
Now we remember a remarkable man and a remarkable scientist. Dr. Sherif Zaki died after an accidental fall at home, days before Thanksgiving. His wife Nadia and their family did not know what to do with the plans they'd made for the week.
NADIA ZAKI: It's been like we're living in a dream. This is not really happening. We're expecting that maybe he's going to give us a call now. They're waiting for his call or expect him to walk in any minute, surprise us.
ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:
Zaki was a beloved husband and father of two, and he was also a world-renowned expert on infectious diseases who first made his mark at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the early '90s.
TOM KSIAZEK: The events of the hantavirus outbreak and some of the early work put him on the map.
ZAKI: Tom Ksiazek - he worked side by side with Zaki for years at the CDC. In 1993, Zaki and his team were the first to identify a deadly hantavirus outbreak in the Navajo Nation. From then on, he became a go-to infectious disease detective, building new ways to identify pathogens.
KSIAZEK: Everywhere from Ebola to the initial SARS to new agents like Lujo and Nipah.
SHAPIRO: One of Zaki's highest-profile cases came right after 9/11.
BRAD PERKINS: There were a series of bioterrorism attacks using a bacteria called Bacillus anthracis.
SHAPIRO: Also known as anthrax - Dr. Brad Perkins worked with Zaki for two decades.
PERKINS: We had a series of attacks in various parts of the country, starting in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York City and Connecticut.
SHAPIRO: They worked 24-hour days to confirm that those cases in different states were in fact linked.
PERKINS: And he did this same task across a whole range of new, never seen before infectious disease pathogens in a way that I just don't think anybody else in the world would have been capable of.
Dr. Sherif R. Zaki, Acclaimed Disease Detective, Dies at 65
He helped identify numerous viruses, including Covid-19, as well as the bioterrorism attack that spread anthrax in 2001....
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