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My guest today has for several decades been at the front line of mankind's battle

with one of our deadliest enemies,

a parasite that passes into your blood through the saliva gland of a tiny

insect. Every year 200 million people are infected with malaria and over half a

million of them are killed by it.

Whilst thousands of scientists today work towards treatments and medicines for those

that have been infected, Janet Hemingway has been focusing for many years on what can be done

to stop infectious mosquitoes from spreading the disease in the first place.

She is, in other words, a vector biologist, Janitor's director of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and a fellow of the Royal Society.

Her work has taken her to the most glamorous and treacherous places in the Malarial world,

from Mozambique to Mexico, South Africa to Sri Lanka.

Oh, and she was the youngest ever female scientist to make professor in the UK.

Janet Hemingway, welcome to the Life Scientific.

Thank you very much. Now, according to the Life Scientific. Thank you very much. Now according to the

World Health Organization numbers, malaria is down over 40% in the last 10 years.

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