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The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has unveiled a China-funded reference laboratory at its headquarters in Ethiopia, creating another milestone for China's health diplomacy. The Dr Wu Lien-teh Laboratory, named after the Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist who helped eradicate the plague in Manchuria in 1911, aims to address gaps in laboratory systems in Africa. It includes two high-containment Biosafety Level 3 laboratories, the second-highest rating in a four-...

The 2022 Wakley–Wu Lien Teh Prize invited submissions sharing ideas of “a heart full of great compassion and empathy” in modern Chinese clinical practice.1 We are pleased and grateful to have received 187 submissions—twice the number of submissions in 2021—telling touching and provocative stories about all aspects of medical practice in China. Essays were shortlisted by two editors at The Lancet Group and anonymised essays were sent to external advisers in China for their reflections a...

“久病床前无孝子。”

GEORGE TOWN: Leaders in the medical field will get together to celebrate the legacy of epidemiologist Dr Wu Lien-Teh (pic), who invented a medical face mask that became the N95 respirator.

Scientists play catch-up with Covid therapies Presented by With Susannah Luthi, Rachel Roubein and Dan Goldberg Editor’s Note: POLITICO Pulse is a free version of POLITICO Pro Health Cares morning newsletter, which is delivered to our subscribers each morning at 6 a.m. The POLITICO Pro platform combines the news you need with tools you can use to take action on the day’s biggest stories. U.S. health officials are racing to find new Covid therapies , and have turned to antiviral medications...

Google Doodle honors inventor of the surgical mask, considered to be the precursor of N95 masks Happy birthday to the man behind the mask: Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist Dr. Wu Lien-teh ���� Did you know? To combat the Manchurian plague of 1910-1911, Wu invented a mask considered the predecessor to the modern-day N95.#GoogleDoodle → https://t.co/A8TbLBehmPpic.twitter.com/XaX2dpkRdP— Google Doodles (@GoogleDoodles) March 10, 2021 The N95 respirator--a scientific icon born from plag...

Who Was Dr. Wu Lien-teh? Google Doodle Celebrates Surgical Face Mask Pioneer On 3/10/21 at 4:51 AM EST Dr. Wu Lien-teh is celebrated in todays Google Doodle on what would have been his 142nd birthday. The Chinese-Malaysian epidemiologist invented a surgical face covering that is considered the precursor to the N95 mask, which is widely used today to combat the spread of COVID-19. Wu was born on this day in 1879, to a family of Chinese immigrants in Penang, Malaya, which is modern-day Malaysia. ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 19 2021 (IPS) - Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment. Jomo Kwame Sundaram Lockdowns necessary? Although most East Asian economies have succe...

COVID-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since th...

KUALA LUMPUR: Covid-19 infection and death rates in the Western world and many developing countries in Asia and Latin America have long overtaken East Asia since the second quarter of 2020. Perhaps unsurprisingly, considering prevailing Western accounts of the Asian financial crises, there have been no serious efforts to draw policy lessons from East Asian contagion containment.