India, Feb. 5 -- In February 2003, an American businessman travelling from China got afflicted with pneumonia-like symptoms while on a flight to Singapore. En route the flight had stopped at Hanoi and the businessman was rushed to a hospital where he soon died. Many others in the medical staff attending to him also developed the same disease and an Italian doctor, Carlo Urbani, recognising the severity of the strange viral threat, alarmed the World Health Organisation (WHO) - later, he too succumbed to the mysterious virus. Three months earlier, the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) epidemic had indeed accounted for its first casualty in the Guandong province of China and many more had followed, but China had deliberately kept the ...