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When reporter Kathleen McLaughlin first went to China, she needed regular doses of blood plasma, but in China at that time, the odds on any medication were only about 50-50 that it was both safe and effective. So she smuggled in her own, but as a reporter for the Guardian, she wondered, what’s the impact of defective Chinese medicines around the world. In Tanzania, where malaria is a widespread problem, those 50-50 odds were leaving a lot of patients ill-treated or dead.
By KSFRWhen reporter Kathleen McLaughlin first went to China, she needed regular doses of blood plasma, but in China at that time, the odds on any medication were only about 50-50 that it was both safe and effective. So she smuggled in her own, but as a reporter for the Guardian, she wondered, what’s the impact of defective Chinese medicines around the world. In Tanzania, where malaria is a widespread problem, those 50-50 odds were leaving a lot of patients ill-treated or dead.