Stealing Seeds That Cures Malaria
Stealing Seeds That Cures Malaria
During the mid-1800s a man named Manuel Incra Mamani was tasked by an Englishman to scour the Amazon for a thing that cures malaria. This thing is scraped from the bark of a tree called cinchona. You turn it into powder and mix it water, and voila, a drug that fights malaria. But where’s the stealing here? Well, there’s three problems: (1) malaria is spreading all around Italy, India, Africa and…
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