New weapon against malaria /
A chemical developed by China for use by the Vietcong in the Vietnam War to fight malaria is providing new hope for millions of malaria sufferers. The chemical called artemisinin, which is extracted from the ginghao plant, is providing new hope for millions of malaria sufferers. The plant is grown i...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | This edition in English. |
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London :
SW Pictures Ltd.,
2010.
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| Series: | Current affairs in video
Kill or cure? |
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | A chemical developed by China for use by the Vietcong in the Vietnam War to fight malaria is providing new hope for millions of malaria sufferers. The chemical called artemisinin, which is extracted from the ginghao plant, is providing new hope for millions of malaria sufferers. The plant is grown in vast quantities in China and could do much to fight malaria, particularly in Africa, like in Burkina Faso where we meet the patients that will benefit, but the yield from the plant is too low and generating quantities to meet demand could be tricky, this is where scientists at Edinburgh University in the UK come in. They have been developing a technique to engineer a variety of the plant with much higher yields. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (23 min.). |
| Playing Time: | 00:22:54 |