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Paperback Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria Book

ISBN: 1629441961

ISBN13: 9781629441962

Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria

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People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People's Republic of China created a task force to find a cure.

Working in the 1970s, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou reviewed the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scrolls for ideas on where to start her research. She found 640 traditional treatments, and methodically started extracting compounds and testing them against...

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