Ancient Chinese anti-fever cure becomes panacea for malaria.
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The son of peasants, Professor Zhou Yiqing was born in 1929. He joined the Eighth Route Army (later part of the People’s Liberation Army) at the age of 16. During the Sino-Japanese War and the War of Liberation (Chinese Civil War) he served as a nurse, head of a nursing squad, assistant physician and eventually doctor-in-charge. In 1960, he graduated from the Shanghai No. 2 Military Medical University and later became a researcher at the Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology (IME) of the Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS). W HO /C ui W ei yu an
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Bulletin of the World Health Organization
دوره 87 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009