The Chinese Herb for Malaria and Nobel Prize Winner

Bunch of wormwood grass (Artemisia). Svetkins/Shutterstock

Editors note: Republished June 2023 because malaria has made a reappearance in the United States.

Congratulations go out to Professor Tu Youyou for her 1972 discovery in processing the Chinese herb Artemisia (Qing Hao). Tu is now recognized with a Nobel Prize in Medicine.