Wu Liande / 伍连德

Wu Liande appears in 65.龙王之怒：1931年的长江洪水 as a public-health expert sent to investigate cholera reports in the 1931 flood zone. The episode says he initially judged the situation less severe than feared, but cholera later did spread and became part of the flood’s disease aftermath.

In the source, Wu is a node for the public-health side of disaster response. His role connects disease surveillance, expert uncertainty, refugee movement, dirty water, vaccination, and the difficulty of matching technical assessment to changing field conditions.

Connections

• Nationalist Government / 国民政府 - institutional setting for public-health investigation.
• Disaster Response State Capacity - disease control and field assessment capacity.
• War-Disaster Compounding and Disaster Relief Mismatch - why disease response became more difficult.