Nobel Goes to Pioneers of Natural-Based Medicines - NBCNews.com

Three scientists who discovered natural-based remedies against parasites that cause malaria and river blindness won the Nobel Prize of Medicine on Monday.

The compounds - called artemisinin and ivermectin - are used by millions of people around the world and have saved countless lives. Ivermectin -which now is used to fight pests from bed bugs and lice to serious diseases such as lymphatic filariasis - was derived from naturally occurring bacteria in soil.

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