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Tu Youyou won a Nobel Prize for discovering artemisinin, a treatment for which disease?
Answer
Malaria
Tu Youyou isolated artemisinin from the sweet wormwood plant after screening hundreds of thousands of extracts, and it became a cornerstone treatment for malaria, earning her the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin for malaria by screening 380,000 plant extracts, reviving ancient Chinese herbalism through systematic scientific research.
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- Tuberculosis
- Cholera
- Yellow fever
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