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Discovering an Antimalarial Drug in Mao’s China

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However, the blandly clinical package of artemisinin and artesunate tablets reveals little about how the key compound was first discovered. Delays In the early 1980s, eager to push artemisinin onto the international market, China turned to the World Health Organization (WHO). Nobody had an answer.

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