Alessandro Petacchi has been ruled out for Giro 2008 due to illness. He will be replaced by Erik Zabel by team Milram. Apologies if this is old news.
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-giropetacchi&prov=reuters&type=lgns
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/05/03/cycling.petacchi/index.html?eref=rss_latest
http://sports.yahoo.com/sc/news?slug=reu-giropetacchi&prov=reuters&type=lgns
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/SPORT/05/03/cycling.petacchi/index.html?eref=rss_latest