Tu calls for united global malaria fight

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Tu Youyou, this year's Nobel Prize laureate for physiology or medicine, called for joint efforts worldwide to combat malaria and develop more potential uses for traditional Chinese medicine.

Tu, 84, made the appeal at a news conference on Sunday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. She will collect China's first Nobel Prize in medicine at the award ceremony on Thursday and will later attend the Nobel Banquet and a Royal banquet.