Hi Neal,I am enclosing below the abstract of the article you described. As well I included an abstract of another article showing the range of diseases treated with the wormwood product,Artemisinin. SE Asia has been relatively malaria free for centuries because of the wormwood drug. Two years ago the Gates Foundation gave researchers at UC Berkeley $44 million to to produce Artemisinin derivatives in E. coli and Yeast but that has not yet panned out.. Artesunate-mefloquine treatment has begun to be the global drug treatment of choice , particularly for children. Interestingly, artesunate-mefloquine resistance appeared in Cambodia for the first time in 2006-2007. Only time will tell how persistent the synthetic artemisinins will be. Artesunate is an antimalarial agent. It is a water-soluble hemisuccinate derivative of dihydroartemisinin. Will the synthetic artemisinins really outclass wormwood?
sincerely, joe cummins Neal Van Milligen wrote:
MALARIA TREATMENT Researchers at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) have cured malaria-infected mice with single shots of a new series of potent, long-lasting synthetic drugs modeled on an ancient Chinese herbal folk remedy. The drugs mimic artemisinin, the active agent in a Chinese herbal drug used to treat malaria and other fevers for thousands of years. Artemisinin comes from the Artemisia annua plant. “These peroxide compounds promise not only to be more effective than today's best malaria remedies, but also potentially safer and more efficient,” said research team leader Gary Posner, Scowe Professor of Chemistry in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins. The oxygen-oxygen unit in the peroxides causes malaria parasites to self-destruct. For more information, visit: http://link.abpi.net/l.php?20070424A6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------See what's free at AOL.com <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503>.&NBSP; ***************************************************** To unsubscribe from SANET-MG:1- Visit http://lists.sare.org/archives/sanet-mg.html and unsubscribe by typing in your e-mail address or;2- Send a message to mailto:listserv@sare.org from the address subscribed to the list. Type "unsubscribe sanet-mg" in the body of the message.&NBSP;Visit the SANET-MG archives at: http://lists.sare.org/archives/sanet-mg.htmlQuestions? Visit http://www.sare.org/about/sanetFAQ.htm. &NBSP;
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