Inventions towards malaria treatment have made several physicians clinch the lucrative Nobel Peace Award.
Kenya is among the top list of key contributors toward eradicating malaria.
Here are a few powerful inventions that will kick out the plague.
Tu Youyou
Chinese Pharmacologist Tu Youyou who developed chloroquine-resistant malaria cure from Chinese herb medicine was the latest to win such an award in 2015.
Tu Youyou discovered artemisinin and dihydroartemisinin, which are now used to treat malaria.
Artemisnins are still the strongest weapons in the fight against malaria.
Sir Ronald Ross
Sir Ronald Ross of Almora, India received the Nobel prize for identifying malaria was transmitted by mosquito.
His discovery revolutionized the way malaria was perceived, prevented and cured.
He was awarded Nobel Prize in 1902 for the discovery made in Calcutta.
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, a preeminent Austrian psychiatrist was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927 for the development of malaria therapy for the treatment of syphilis.
Dr Julius Wagner showed that using blood from malaria patients could treat neurosyphillis.
For this, he was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
We now have penicillin for syphilis treatment!
World Health Organization, WHO endorsed the new malaria vaccine Mosquirix also called RTS invented in Kenya.
The vaccine – made by GSK provides partial protection against malaria in young children.
