GEORGE TOWN: The Chinese called him the Plague Fighter for his effort in containing the spread of a pneumonic plague that killed 60,000 people in China in 1910.
Dr Wu Lien-Teh (1879-1960) eventually turned out to be the only ever Malayan nominee for a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1935, and the first ever Chinese medical student at Cambridge University in 1896.
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