Reality Stranger Than Fiction – The Extraordinary Life Story of Tu Youyou

Fascinating story of Tu Youyou (who was awarded a share of the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology):

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228382-000-the-modest-woman-who-beat-malaria-for-china/

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/05/youyou-tu-how-maos-challenge-to-malaria-pioneer-led-to-nobel-prize

Related:

The Economist on the battle to eradicate malaria:

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21672080-end-sight-one-humanitys-deadliest-plagues-breaking-fever