
Date: 1964
Who: Aklilu Lemma
Where: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
What: Aklilu Lemma was an Ethiopian doctor and Pathobiologist who discovered a natural treatment against bilharzia, a debilitating and eventually fatal illness. He relentlessly studied and systematically improved his research, developing an affordable preventative, locally controllable means of eradicating a disease that, after malaria, has been the second greatest killer in the Third World.
Learn more: Biography of Aklilu Lemma (biographies.net)
Lemma, A. (1970). Laboratory and field evaluation of the molluscicidal properties of Phytolacca dodecandra. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 42(4), 597.
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