Obituary: Ho Wang Lee, 94
The Lancet, October 2022
Ho Wang Lee, the leading Korean virologist instrumental to identifying Hantaan virus as a cause of viral haemorragic fever, died July 5 in Seoul. He was 94. “Western medicine confronted a deadly new disease during the Korean conflict, then [known as] Korean haemorrhagic fever, but it took nearly 3 decades of persistent study for the cause to finally be discovered by Dr .Ho Wang Lee,” said James Le Duc, former director of Galveston National Laboratory at University of Texas Medical Branch. An eminent expert of infectious diseases and public health, Le Duc had worked closely with Lee for nearly 30 years.