Wong Chun Wai HIS name does not exist in our school history books and he has never been accorded the recognition that he truly deserves – and what’s more, he was a Malaysian. In the fall of 1910, a pneumonic plague which originated in Russian Siberia, broke out in Harbin, the north eastern region of China. The epidemic spread so quickly that within four months, it claimed 60,000 lives. This is perhaps a good time … Continue reading Wu Lien-Teh: Malaysia’s little-known plague virus fighter