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China's breakthrough malaria cure

An ancient Chinese remedy gives the world a cure for malaria; the inspiration for Kurt Vonnegut's famous anti-war novel; plus a satirical re-writing of Soviet history

How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria; the bombing of Dresden in the Second World War that inspired Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war novel Slaughterhouse Five; the fall of Singapore; plus the town that America built in Afghanistan's south-western desert, and 'was Lenin a mushroom' - a satirical re-writing of Soviet history.

Photo: Professor Lang Linfu (Family archives)

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Tue 19 Mar 201900:06GMT
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