Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria (She Made History)

by Songju Ma Daemicke (Author)

Tu Youyou's Discovery: Finding a Cure for Malaria (She Made History)
Reading Level: 4th − 5th Grade

Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in 1969, she went to work finding a treatment.

Trained as a medical researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and experimentation is still used all over the world today.

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Classification
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9780807581117
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Publication date
October 20, 2021
Series
She Made History
BISAC categories
JNF007090 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF051190 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Science & Nature | History of Science
JNF024020 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Health & Daily Living | Diseases, Illnesses & Injuries
Library of Congress categories
Scientists
Treatment
China
Therapeutics
Malaria
Tu, Youyou
Pharmacologists
Women medical scientists
Artemisinin
Medicine, Chinese
Chinese medicine

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