Quinine Monopoly How One Tree Locked Up the World
Автор: Forgotten Allies WW2
Загружено: 2025-12-27
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Описание: During World War II, the world’s supply of a life-saving medicine depended on a single tree. This documentary explores the hidden history of quinine, the cinchona tree, and how a Dutch monopoly controlled nearly all malaria treatment for decades. From the Andes Mountains to the jungles of Java, and from colonial empires to the Pacific War, this story reveals how medicine shaped global power, military strategy, and survival. When Japan captured the Dutch East Indies in 1942, the Allies faced a medical catastrophe that nearly collapsed their Pacific campaign. Discover how malaria threatened entire armies, why quinine shortages became an existential wartime crisis, how synthetic alternatives like Atabrine emerged, and what this monopoly teaches us about fragile global supply chains. This is the untold story of how one tree locked up the world’s medicine supply—and nearly changed the outcome of history.
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