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The New Weapon Against Disease-Spreading Insects Is Big Data …

Computer models that pinpoint the likely locations of mosquitoes and tsetse flies are helping officials target vector control efforts.Ploughing the fertile soils of the Niayes region near Dakar in Senegal is still done using beasts of burden—and Big Data is protecting these bovine beasts from an enfeebling malady that’s spread by tsetse flies.An international research team combined high-resolution maps with advances in species distribution models to […]