Wu's descendants go on heritage trail

Legendary physician: Dr Lee (left) chatting with Prof Ye Tian (right) and Prof Qu Zhangyi of First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University in front of the bronze bust of Dr Wu.

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.