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Herbal Treatment For Malaria in Short Supply

You may remember a blog I posted a few months ago about artemisinin, a natural, quite effective and very inexpensive treatment for malaria. largely ignored by Western health agencies until this year. Evidently, many more people have discovered this natural remedy too: The rising demand has created a critical shortfall. As a result, prices for artemisinin -- extracted from the sweet wormwood plant -- have quadrupled, and the few companies that make compounds containing it have drastically...