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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. In response to the precipitous rise in incidence, governments on both sides of the Pacific began a systematized search for antimalarial treatments. Nobody had an answer.

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