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01/23/2005:

"Chinese anti-Malaria plant artemisia annua grown in Africa"

The Chinese and Vietnamese anti-Malaria plant sweet wormwood or artemisia annua will now be grown in Africa, where the soil and climate are suitable, under a World Health Organisation-US Agency for International Development project.

Artemisinin is the extract of wormwood that is useful against Malaria. The demand for the plant from China has exhausted supplies, leading USAID to promote new plantings in East Africa, FrontLines, a USAID publication, says.

Full Article : newkerala.com