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Taiwan s malaria fighter Lien Jih-ching passes away at age 96 | Taiwan News

Entomologist key in Taiwan s malaria fight dies

Lien Jih-ching (連日清), an entomologist and public health expert who helped in the effort to have the WHO in 1965 declare Taiwan to be “malaria free,” died on Wednesday. He was 96. Born in Taipei’s Dadaocheng (大稻埕) area, Lien’s connection with mosquito studies began at age 15 when he worked part-time at the Tropical Medicine Research Institute at what was at the time Taihoku Imperial University, now National Taiwan University. Lien worked for Omori Nanzaburo, a Japanese entomologist, helping him to develop prevention strategies and treatments for dengue fever. During a dengue fever outbreak in Taiwan in 1942, an estimated 5 million out of

Japanese thanked for insect gift - Taipei Times

Japanese thanked for insect gift ‘UNIQUE COLLECTION’: A Taichung university said its collection of preserved bugs had been given a great boost by the donations of three academics from Japan By Tsai Shu-yuan and Jake Chung / Staff reporter, with staff writer A collection of preserved insects donated by Japanese academics to National Chung Hsing University has greatly enriched its collection and would boost research, the university said yesterday. The collection, which was donated by Kokichi Hatta, Yasuo Takasaki and Nobuhiro Yoshida, has 27,000 specimens, the university said. It arrived in the middle of last month, and includes dragonflies and butterflies from Japan, Indonesia, Burma and Peru, the university said.

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