Malaria is a disease that is of no interest to the media and each year kills more human beings in the tropics than AIDS. Malaria targets two billion people, a third of humanity, with 700 million infected and more than 3 million deaths, mainly African children. Artemisinin, used by the Chinese two centuries before our era, and the quinine administered by Inca sorcerers are still the only effective medicines for malaria. Synthetic antimalarials have lost their effectiveness and the now chemoresistant pest is returning to areas in which it had been eradicated. The film takes us from Paris to Ankara, from London to Yaoundé and from Montpellier to Lambaréné, finishing in Bamako to meet ordinary people and scientists to talk about new control strategies.

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