Sheela Basrur, Toronto's chief medical officer of health (are there any other kind of medical officers?) during the SARS hoo ha. Her death came after a 2 year battle with hemangiopericytoma, a rare vascular cancer. "She was the one that lifted us up on her
shoulders even though she wasn't that tall," said Ontario Health Minister George Smitherman.
Dave
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
The diminutive Basrur dead at 51
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coronaviridae,
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Lilliputian,
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