The University of Georgia has been awarded a hefty grant for research into a deadly disease. The nearly 19-million dollars given to the UGA research foundation is the largest in its history. The five-year grant comes from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. It's aimed at reducing and hopefully wiping-out a microscopic worm that kills as many as 200-thousand people each year. The UGA professor to lead the research into schistosomiasis says most cases of the infection are found in sub-saharan Africa. There are no known cases in the United States.
