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More than a Hundred years before COVID, a deadly pneumonic plague threatened to sweep through Northeast China. Medical experts were summoned to contain it--among them Wu Lien-teh, who had overcome hurdles to be a doctor since his boyhood in Malaysia. Unlike others, Dr. Wu deduced the disease was spread through airborne bacteria and advocated for quarantines and other measures familiar to readers today, including the use of a face covering he designed from layers of cloth and gauze: the first version of the N95 mask.
Wu Lien-teh faced ridicule and discrimination, but his trailblazing methods prevailed: the 1910 Manchurian plague was vanquished in four months, and his invention continues to keep us safe now. (from amazon.com)
Where can I find it?: Lower/Middle School library, Lithgow building
Tags: Biographies; Biography; Epidemics; Juvenile works; Picture books; Pneumonia; Wu, Liande, 1879-1960
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