Malaria has plagued humans for centuries. It was written about by the ancient Mesopotamians, Greeks, Romans, Hindus, and Chinese. The cure was waiting quietly in the bark of a tree in South America- A place malaria never touched until European colonizers brought it there.

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References

https://www.britannica.com/plant/juniper

https://www.craftginclub.co.uk/ginnedmagazine/what-is-gin-made-from-and-how-is-it-made

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9714995/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555962/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK215638/

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-hccc-worldcivilization/chapter/the-indo-aryan-migration-and-the-vedic-period/#:~:text=The%20Vedic%20Period%20refers%20to,with%20them%20specific%20religious%20traditions. 

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(12)65320-8/fulltext

https://www.britannica.com/plant/Cinchona

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20200527-the-tree-that-changed-the-world-map

https://daily.jstor.org/cinchona-a-legacy-of-extraction-and-extirpation/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/East-India-Company

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