Malaria Business (2017)

• 81%
• 2017
• Documentary
• Bernard Crutzen

-By telling the story of Artemisia and those who are fighting to make this plant widely available, the documentary "Malaria Business" is putting the institutions that have been trying to fight malaria for the past fifty years to the wall. In 2017, the disease continues to kill a child every two minutes, the parasite that causes it becomes resistant to drugs, mosquitoes bypass mosquito nets, and the vaccine promised for 2018 proves disappointing. Meanwhile, African, American and European researchers are revealing that a simple herbal tea of Artemisia can prevent and cure malaria. Used for two millennia in China, this plant is however not recommended by the WHO (World Health Organisation) and banned in France and Belgium.