Tu Youyou had been interested in science and medicine since she was a
child, so when malaria started infecting people all over the world in
1969, she went to work finding a treatment. Trained as a medical
researcher in college and healed by traditional medicine techniques when
she was young, Tu Youyou started experimenting with natural Chinese
remedies. The treatment she discovered through years of research and
experimentation is still used all over the world today.