"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." -- publisher
Themes
Genres: Non-Fiction
Categories: Biography
Content: STEM
Settings: Asia, China, Eastern Asia, Europe, Northern Europe, Sweden
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Asian/Pacific Islander/Asian American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary