Nation's greatest scientist receives top honor
The 60-year career of Hou Yunde, a global authority on viruses who is known as the guardian of China's health, is still inspiring medical professionals around the world, as Zhang Zhihao reports.
In the summer of 2014, during an outbreak of Ebola in Sierra Leone, West Africa, four Chinese healthcare professionals spent days in a stiflingly hot biosafety lab the size of two shipping containers checking blood samples for evidence of the virus, one of the deadliest pathogens in history.
"It was the first time our team members had dealt with such a terrifying virus in such horrific sanitary conditions," said Wu Guizhen, Party secretary of the National Institute for Viral Disease Control and Prevention at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
