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

    Written by Darcy Pattison

    Narrated by Josiah John Bildner

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    About this audiobook

    “…an engaging story of scientific research, hope, and determination.” Kirkus Review

    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 malaria. Would any of them work?

     

    Courage, resilience, and perseverance--follow the struggles of Nobel Prize scientist Tu Youyou as she works to find a cure to malaria.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMims House
    Release dateMar 1, 2022
    ISBN9781629441986
    FEVER: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria
    Author

    Darcy Pattison

    DARCY PATTISON is the author of The River Dragon, illustrated by Jean and Mou-Sien Tseng, as well as the fantasy novel The Wayfinder. She teaches writing at the University of Central Arkansas. She lives in North Little Rock, Arkansas.<br>

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