When Kayode Ojo first fell sick
with malaria as a young boy in Nigeria, his grandfather shunned modern
medicine, venturing into the bush to search for herbs and plants to treat the
disease.Having succumbed to malaria a further 50 or more times in his life, the
United States-based scientist, now in his forties, is determined that his
research - to develop a drug to stop transmission from humans back to
mosquitoes - will help to eradicate the deadly disease."When people in
Nigeria, the world's hardest-hit country, get malaria, many simply shrug their
shoulders and see it as normal ... that needs to change," Ojo told the
Thomson Reuters Foundation in a lab at the University of Washington in Seattle.Ojo
is one of thousands of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs striving to
develop innovations to end malaria in a city dubbed the "Silicon Valley of
saving lives", which boasts more than 160 organizations working on global
health issues. Read more at http://www.reuters.com/
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