Malaria reduction in Comoros
Published by AWills March 15th, 2008 in NewsEd Harris, “Chinese Researchers Claim Comoros Malaria Success,” Reuters, 11 March 2008.
Artequick, a malarial drug based on the Artemisia shrub, has reduced malaria cases from 23% to 1.4% within 60 days on the Moheli island of Comoros. Four doses were given to the 40,000 people living on the island in November as part of a project led by May Lee of China’s Guangzhou University of Traditional Medicine.
Currently, Artequick is under clinical trials in Cambodia.
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