Long delays in diagnosis spell trouble

Allied forces from Spain, Venice and Genoa defeated the Ottoman fleet at the Battle of Lepanto off southwest Greece, the last battle between oar-driven ships

2001: U.S. and British forces launched air strikes against Afghanistan

2006: Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist fiercely critical of the wars in Chechnya, was shot dead

2015: The WHO recorded no new Ebola cases for a week since the West African outbreak began in March 2014 2020: Mario Molina, Nobel Prize winning Mexican chemist who played a key role in discovering the Antarctic ozone hole, died aged 77