It’s official: China has eliminated malaria

Re:It’s official: China has eliminated malaria by treeman79 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:14PM (#27695350)

Article mentions anti malarial drugs, but not which ones.

Hydroxychloroquine or a stronger variation is a typical malaria drug. Something you take when traveling to hotspots.

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Re:It’s official: China has eliminated malaria by stubish on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @09:55PM (#27695564)

I imagine the anti-malarial drugs they are talking about are the ones derived from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisinin , which won a Chinese researcher a Nobel Prize a few years back.

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