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Natural Treatment for Bilharziasis​


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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