China's "sugar pill" vaccine developer remembered on centenary
BEIJING, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese virologist Gu Fangzhou's heroism in swallowing an untested vaccine and then secretly feeding it to his infant son ultimately gave rise to China's oral polio vaccine, a "sugar pill" that would protect millions of children.Although the story is decades old and the disease long been wiped out in China, Gu has never been a forgotten icon. His name remains inseparable from the bre
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