Early and Advanced Pneumonic Plague patients

Photograph depicting how the gauze-cotton mask should be worn

Improvised ambulances used in 1911 Pneumonic plague epidemic

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K. Chimin Wong and Wu Lien-Teh

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Early and Advanced Pneumonic Plague patients

Photograph depicting how the gauze-cotton mask should be worn

Improvised ambulances used in 1911 Pneumonic plague epidemic