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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Fight the fakes: how to beat the $200bn medicine counterfeiters | Helen Lock

Armed with blockchain and AI, health workers and campaigners are battling the bogus business that kills thousands

By the time the teenage boy was standing in front of Bernice Bornmai, feverish and delirious, it was already too late.

It wasn’t just the malaria that was killing the 17-year-old, it was the time he’d wasted taking fake medicine. The antimalarials did nothing to stop the disease marching through the young Ghanaian’s body: his organs were already shutting down.

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from World news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2XrAI0l

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