Fever: How Tu Youyou Adapted Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria

For ages 7-12

People were dying! Malaria is a deadly mosquito-borne disease that causes fevers, chills and often death. In 1969, the People's Republic of China created a task force to find a cure.

 

Working in the 1970s, Chinese scientist Tu Youyou reviewed the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) scrolls for ideas on where to start her research. She found 640 traditional treatments, and methodically started extracting compounds and testing them against malaria. Would any of them work?

 

Courage, resilience, and perseverance--follow the struggles of Nobel Prize scientist Tu Youyou as she works to find a cure to malaria.



Book 7, Moments in Science Series

This exciting series focuses on small moments in science that made a difference.



·     BURN: Michael Faraday's Candle

·     CLANG! Ernst Chladni's Sound Experiments, 2019 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book

·     POLLEN: Darwin's 130 Year Prediction, Junior Library Guild selection, Starred Kirkus Review. 2020 NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Book

·     ECLIPSE: How the 1919 Eclipse Proved Einstein's Theory of General Relativity

·     EROSION: How Hugh Bennett saved America's Soil and Ended the Dust Bowl, 2021 NSSTA Notable Social Studies Book

·     A.I. How Patterns Helped A.I. Defeat World Champion Lee Sedol

·     FEVER: How Tu Youyou Used Traditional Chinese Medicine to Find a Cure for Malaria