
Bacterial Battleground
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Malaria - The First Anti Malarial Drug
The first anti malarial drug was a drug calledis quinine. It's the one in, it's in your tonic, but in very, very small amounts. The main source of aquinine was indanesia, which then got captured by the japanese. And also holland, where all the a tries were captured by the germans. There is an alternative, which is called ate brine. So they discovered this when in tunida, when romell’s army retreated. They captured stocks of the german atebrine. This made them less effective than quinnine, but it was somewhat affected. I think the other thing
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