Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria
Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria
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Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria

Written by Songju Ma Daemicke & illustrated by Lin
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Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over the world today.

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    Book Details

    ISBN
    9780807581117
    Publication Date
    October 1, 2021
    Publisher
    Albert Whitman & Company
    Page Count
    32
    Audience
    Picture
    Reading Age
    5 - 8 years
    Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
    2020057491

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