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So, how did you forget your organization was literally founded on 400 years of continuous Quinine history?

As successor to the Malaria Commission of the League of Nations and the Rockefeller Foundation (who took over from the Jesuits)... helluva thing to forget.

Timeline we'd like "remind" you of:
1630 a Jesuit Priest (Augustino Salumbrino) discovers natives in Lima using cinchona bark to cure infectious diseases... they name it "Jesuits' bark" and enjoyed a monopoly on its distribution for a long time.
https://www.scientus.org/Jesuits-Bark.html

Interestingly, Malaria wasn't native to South America, but when the Jesuits saw the nature of chills, fevers, and symptoms being treated, they knew the cinchona bark might be exactly what Pope Urban had sent them to find (after eight of HIS cardinals died of Malaria).

Yeah, the irony.
So quinine was discovered by "off-label" experimentation with a drug used by natives (nobody knows how long they'd been using it) to treat other conditions.

Yeah, the irony.
Pope Urban depended on a certain block of cardinals for power... when his "electors" were dropping dead of Malaria he mobilized the Jesuits to search for cures in the New World.
https://www.scientus.org/Jesuits-Bark.html

Quinine & its synthetic derivatives appears to be one of the most extensively researched of medicinal compounds, and tightly linked to the origin of the CDC itself... but all forgotten because of political convenience & COVID-19.