不久前,中国85岁女科学家屠呦呦获得了2015年诺贝尔医学奖,这是我国科学家首次获得诺贝尔奖。大家知道,屠奶奶是从我国中医古籍里得到灵感和启发,从中药植物青蒿中,提炼、发现了能高效抑制疟原虫的医药成分——青蒿素。因她的这一发现,用青蒿素制成的药每年在全球范围内挽救了数以百万计的人的生命。那么,什么是疟原虫?它生长在哪里?危害到底多大?这些问题让我想起了十几年前在非洲的亲身 Not long ago, China’s 85-year-old female scientist Tu Yo Yo won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine, which is the first time that our scientists have won the Nobel Prize. As we all know, the grandmother’s milk is inspired and inspired by our ancient Chinese medical books. From the Chinese herbal medicine Artemisia annua, we extract and find the medicinal ingredient that can effectively inhibit Plasmodium - artemisinin. Because of her discovery, the drug made with artemisinin saved millions of lives worldwide every year. So, what is Plasmodium? Where is it growing? How much harm is done? These questions remind me of a dozen years ago in Africa