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Gordon G. Liu (), Lijing L. Yan and Ming Xu
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Gordon G. Liu: Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development
Lijing L. Yan: Duke Kunshan University
Ming Xu: Peking University Institute for Global Health and Development

A chapter in Global Health and Development, 2023, pp 1-6 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Over a hundred years ago in 1918, on September 22, Professor William Welch from John Hopkins University (JHU), also serving as the Lieutenant-Colonel of the United States Army arrived at Camp Devens, 60 kilometers away from Boston. Witnessing firsthand the rasping blue death of hundreds of patients in the morgue, he uttered to Dr. Rufus Cole, then Director of the Hospital of the Rockefeller Institute, who was disturbed and surprised to see Dr. Welch also losing his calm demeanor, at least momentarily, “This must be some new kind of infection or plague,”.

Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-9450-0_1

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