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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. It was only in 2005, after the emergence of widespread resistance of P. Few journal articles were written about the project using her (or anyone’s) name before 2010. Nobody had an answer.

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