The Deadliest Diseases Then and Now by Deborah Hopkinson

Author:Deborah Hopkinson [Hopkinson, Deborah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2021-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Dr. Paul-Louis Simond injecting a new (though unsuccessful) plague serum treatment in June 1898 in what is now Karachi, Pakistan. Since the 1940s, plague has been treated with the antibiotic streptomycin, which has also been used to treat tuberculosis.

Death in Winter

While scientists like Dr. Yersin and Dr. Simond were piecing together the basics of how plague works, Dr. Wu Lien-teh was finishing his college career. He returned to Malaysia to practice medicine. In 1908, he took a job training army doctors in Tianjin, a city in northeast China.

That’s where Dr. Wu was in the fall of 1910, when plague broke out in Harbin, a city in Manchuria, a region in northeast China. Dr. Wu was asked to help out. Although he was only thirty-one, Dr. Wu became the “commander in chief” of a desperate effort to stop a ferocious and deadly outbreak.

Dr. Wu faced serious challenges. Russia and Japan controlled parts of the area along with China. Dr. Wu would have to find a way to work with officials of several countries, who were all nervous that plague might race across their borders.

Most of all, he would have to stop the plague epidemic and save lives.

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