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Tu Youyou: Hard Work and Breakthroughs by Einah Einah is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Tu Youyou discovered a breakthrough medication to treat malaria after infecting herself and two others with malaria to test the drug, as there were no facilities in China at the time performing drug trials. Despite preventing from publishing her findings, she continued her research and developed a second antimalarial medication. It was not until 1978 that her work was finally released internationally. Today, over 1 billion people have been treated with the artemisinin-based combination therapy that she help

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Einah Einah

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