Malik Peiris and Lena Stewart

Lena Stewart: Itas a thing that you notice about the people who came through the crisis of 2003. Survivors, responders they remember the outbreak in exquisite detail, according to The Chronicle Herald. Lena Stewart knows April 1, 2003 was a Tuesday, the day she worked a nursing shift at Torontos North York General Hospital with a infected colleague and caught the virus that changed her life and Malik Peiris, a Hong Kong microbiologist who helped find the virus responsible for the outbreak, was out for Valentines Day with his wife when a contact from the World Health Organization called to talk about rumoured illnesses in Chinas Guangdong province. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.