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| | Chinese shrub gives best cure for deadly malaria - Boston.com |
 | | But this shrub, also called the Artemisia annua, is widely regarded by medical experts as the best cure for malaria, one of the world's leading killer diseases. |
 | | Artemisinin is the malaria-fighting compound extracted from the shrub and is used to treat the disease, which causes fever, vomiting, body aches, diarrhea, anemia, loss of concentration, delirium, convulsions, coma and eventually, death. |
 | | Close by is a plaque, detailing what Ge Hong wrote about the magic shrub, which modern clinicians say is able to control raging malaria-fevers in less than two hours in some cases. |
| www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2007/01/25/chinese_shrub_gives_best_cure_for_deadly_malaria (949 words) |
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