Tu Youyou, an 84-year-old researcher at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, was given the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Oct 5. She is the f Chinese citizen who has w a Nobel Prize in science. Tu d a new drug for malaria. The disease infects around 200 million people and kills about half a million people each year. In the late 1960s, Tu and her workmates joined a government p to find a new malaria drug. In 1971, after f more than 190 times, Tu f made an extract called qinghaosu that was effective a malaria.  It has s millions of lives. The discovery is also a gift to mankind from traditional Chinese medicine. It has greatly i human health and r suffering.