Wu, Lien-teh (1879–1960)

Malaysian-born Chinese physician who became a world authority on combating epidemics. He was an active member of the League of Nations Health Organization, and published his monumental Treatise on Pneumonic Plague in 1926.

Wu was born in Penang, Malaysia, studied at Cambridge and London, and qualified as a doctor in 1902. In 1908 he became vice-director of the Imperial College in Tientsin. He was the author, with K C Wong, of History of Chinese Medicine, 1932. His autobiography Plague Fighter, appeared in 1959.