In the 19th century Mobilian doctors helped their Cuban peers fight yellow fever by destroying mosquitoes and a Cuban student who studied in Mobile returned home with a baseball and bat.

A bus driver named Huang Zhiquan, in driving a heart attack, at the last minute, do three things: a car slowly to a stop at the side of the road, and with his last strength pull hand brake.

Doctor Huang Xiaoyuan of Hangzhou was a noted authority on skin diseases and infections of all sorts.