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How Dying Cows And Moldy Hay Led To The Discovery Of A Lifesaving Drug

How moldy hay and dying cows led to one of the greatest medical breakthroughs of the 21st century.

How Dying Cows And Moldy Hay Led To The Discovery Of A Lifesaving Drug

Many of us know about how dirty dishes led to the discovery of penicillin. But few know the story of the discovery of the drug that would kill scores of rats and save thousands of human lives.

In the early 1920s, cows across the Northern United States and Canada were dying after succumbing to major hemorrhaging—but no one knew why the hemorrhaging was occurring.

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