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<\/a>Nobel Prize in Medicine 2015. Three scientists were awarded by their work against Malaria and roundworm. Photo by Ag\u00eancia Brasil<\/p><\/div>\n
Three scientists from Ireland, Japan and China have won the\u00a0Nobel prize in medicine\u00a0for discoveries that helped doctors fight malaria and infections caused by roundworm parasites.<\/p>\n
Youyou Tu discovered one of the most effective treatments for malaria while working on a secret military project during China\u2019s Cultural Revolution.<\/p>\n
The 84-year-old pharmacologist was awarded half of the prestigious 8m Swedish kronor (\u00a3631,000) prize for her discovery of\u00a0artemisinin, a drug that proved to be an improvement on chloroquine, which had become far less effective as the malaria parasites developed resistance.<\/p>\n
Two other researchers, 80-year-old Satoshi \u014cmura, an expert in soil microbes at Kitasato University, and William Campbell, an Irish-born parasitologist at Drew University in New Jersey, share the other half of the prize, for the discovery of avermectin, a treatment for roundworm parasites.<\/p>\n
Together, the scientists have transformed the lives of millions of people in the developing world, where parasitic diseases that cause illness and death are most rife. Read the full story<\/a>.<\/p>\n Related articles already published in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n Grisotti, M\u00e1rcia and Avila-Pires, Fernando Dias.\u00a0Worms, slugs and humans:\u00a0the medical and popular construction of an emerging infectious disease.<\/a>\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Sept 2011, vol.18, no.3, p.877-892. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Cueto, Marcos.\u00a0La “cultura de la sobrevivencia” y la salud p\u00fablica internacional en Am\u00e9rica Latina: la Guerra Fr\u00eda y la erradicaci\u00f3n de enfermedades a mediados del siglo XX<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.255-273. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Silva, Renato da and Paiva, Carlos Henrique Assun\u00e7\u00e3o.\u00a0The Juscelino Kubitschek government and the Brazilian Malaria Control and Eradication Working Group: collaboration and conflicts in Brazilian and international health agenda, 1958-1961<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Mar 2015, vol.22, no.1, p.95-114. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Nussenzweig, Ruth Sonntag.\u00a0Breakthroughs towards a malaria vaccine<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.559-564. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Gachelin, Gabriel and Opinel, Annick.\u00a0Malaria epidemics in Europe after the First World War:\u00a0the early stages of an international approach to the control of the disease<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, June 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.431-470. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Estrada Orrego, Victoria and M\u00e1rquez Valderrama, Jorge.\u00a0Etiolog\u00eda parasitaria y obst\u00e1culos epistemol\u00f3gicos:\u00a0el caso de la malaria en Colombia<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Mar 2007, vol.14, no.1, p.91-118. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n