This March 10th commemorates 142 years of the birth of Wu Lien-teh, a Chinese epidemiologist who attributed it to creation of the quirurgical mascara to lighten against the plague of Manchuria that affected the northeast of China in April 1910.
Born into a Chinese immigrant family in Malaysia, Wu became the first Chinese ascendant student to attend the prestigious University of Cambridge and obtain a doctorate.
In 1908 he received a deputy director of the la Facultad de Medicina del Ejército Imperial de China. Dos años más tarde, dado su intelecto y opmerklik desarrollo com médico, the Chinese government called the number to investigate the contagious illness until the moment known as a “pestilence”.
Google Doodle found that during his investigation, Wu agreed with his companions that he was sick. transferring person to person via area, because all empezaron to cover the cabeza with sales to protect from the plague, without embarrassment, but can not always be sustained in Wu if the curry creates a species of “arena” that is subject to the mascara.
Wu elaboró the first quirurgical mascara with algodone and gas, using capes of it to filter the air. Días despises the acconajaba to the people who use his new invention to get rid of the illness.
This invention is considered as the day of the precursor of the mascarilla N95, which uses all the humanity to bring the Covid-19.
The Chinese epidemiologist works with the governing body to locate emergency rooms for infected patients in hospitals, restrict travel, apply sterilization techniques and maintain social distance, all of which are presented at night.
Thank you for your efforts, logró frenar los efektos de la epidemia en solo quaatro meses y se le reconocioó com “héroe nacional”.
Following an article by El País in commemoration of his birth, Wu suggested to the Chinese government that convene an international conference to evaluate the midwives in the face of illness, in a way that could be blamed on the future. A year later, the conference conformed to the scientists and epidemiologists of 11 countries resulted in the Information of the International Conference of the Plague of 1911.
Your discovery
Wu carried out the first autopsy in China on a woman who died of the virus, concluding that enfermedad era la “neumónica peste” que podium transmitir a traviers del aliento humane et fluidis.
His discovery contradicts the view that in these instances tenien Occidentally, women think that the only pest can be transmitted by rat or birdwatchers.
In 1915 the epidemiologist founded the China Medical Association, medical organization in the largest and most antiquated government in the country.
In agreement with a publication by El País, two decades later Wu was converted into the first Malaysian and a person of Chinese ascension to be nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine by his enviable efforts to save the lives of the Chinese people.