Google dedicates its doodle to the doctor who invented the masks

Google with a doodle pays tribute today to the Malaysian epidemiologist Wu Lien-teh, on the day of the 142nd anniversary of his birth. Wu is believed to be the inventor of the surgical mask.

Wu, who was born to Chinese immigrant parents in Penang on this day in 1879, was the first student of Chinese ethnic descent to earn a medical degree from Cambridge University and was also the first Malaysian Nobel Prize candidate in 1935. precisely for his research activity in the context of the pneumonic plague epidemic that struck north-western China

He had also advised people to wear his new invention, the face mask, and worked with government officials to establish quarantine stations and hospitals, restrict travel, and apply progressive sterilization techniques.

Dr. Wu’s work helped put an end to the Manchurian plague in just four months from the day he was tasked with eradicating the outbreak.