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Kenyan researcher hails Chinese anti-malarial drugs for taming killer disease
STORY: Kenyan researcher hails Chinese anti-malarial drugs for taming killer disease
SHOOTING TIME: Aug. 8, 2024
DATELINE: Aug. 11, 2024
LENGTH: 00:00:49
LOCATION: Nairobi
CATEGORY: HEALTH
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BENARDS OGUTU, Chief research officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
3. various of researchers working
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BENARDS OGUTU, Chief research officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
STORYLINE:
A Kenyan researcher said that Chinese-manufactured anti-malarial drugs have been pivotal in taming the deadly, mosquito-borne tropical disease in his country.
SOUNDBITE 1 (English): BENARDS OGUTU, Chief research officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) "It has totally changed the way treatment of malaria is done because, currently, all the treatments are based on artemisinin, which are basically products that came from the Chinese research activities that have totally changed the way we treat malaria nowadays."
Artemisinin, discovered by Chinese scientists in the 1970s, has been hailed globally as a "magic drug" in malaria treatment.
SOUNDBITE 2 (English): BENARDS OGUTU, Chief research officer, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)
"Artesunate injectables, and these also have gone through a lot of development to what we have today. And this is the first time we have a true drug that actually replaces quinine for the use in severe malaria, and I think that has been a game changer."
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Nairobi.
(XHTV)
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