EAST LANSING (WKZO) -- Michigan State University is leading a 9.1-million-dollar federal research project to try to stop the spread of malaria in Malawi. The university says the goal is to start a self-sustained research entity that can implement and test tactics against the mosquito-borne parasite that kills 1-million people worldwide every year.
The National Institute of Health finances the work, M-S-U began malaria research in Malawi in 1985. Malawi has 13 million people and had 4.4-million known malaria cases in the 12-months through June 2007.
