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Malaysia’s little-known plague fighter

By WONG CHUN WAI
Tribute to a great man: Dr Wu Lien-Teh Society chairman Datuk Dr Anwar Fazal (right) looking at Dr Wu’s bust which is located in front of the Penang Institute on Brown Road. — ASRI ABDUL GHANI/The Star

HIS name is conspicuously absent from our school history books and he has never been accorded the recognition he truly deserves.

But the glaring insult to injury is, he was also Malaysian.

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