Medicines Originated From Plants – Quinine and Artemether for Malaria
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Prologue – Malaria Malaria is the product of the plasmodium parasite, carried by several species of Anopheles mosquitoes, which spreads when they sting their hosts.2 Once entered the human body via saliva from mosquito bites, the plasmodium parasites will invade the liver. P. falciparum, predominantly found in Africa, is the most lethal of all strains….
