Physician Is Nation’s 44th SARS Fatality
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From Times Wire Reports
A 54-year-old doctor died of SARS, becoming the second person in Canada to die of the pneumonia-like illness this week.
Nestor Yanga contracted severe acute respiratory syndrome in April, health officials said. Forty-three other Canadians have died of the illness, including a patient who died Monday.
Eight people remain hospitalized with the disease in Toronto, six weeks after the city was removed from a World Health Organization list of infected areas.
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