Masked Hero: How Wu Lien-teh Invented the Mask That Ended an Epidemic

This biography introduces Dr. Wu Lien-teh and his efforts to stop an epidemic. Written by his great-granddaughter, an emergency physician, it highlights the use of masks and isolation in addressing disease outbreaks. It also connects Wu’s invention during the Manchurian plague with its use by his descendant during a pandemic roughly a century later, placing his life and work in a longer history of public health.