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INFECTIOUS DISEASE EXPERT TO DONATE BODY

Zhang Dingyu, Deputy Director of the Health Commission of Hubei Province, announced recently that he will donate his body for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research.

Zhang was born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, in 1963. In 1981, he was admitted to the Medical Department of Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, and has been working in medicine for more than 30 years.

In 2018, he was diagnosed with ALS, but it didn’t stop him from working to fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as an expert in infectious disease prevention.

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