The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is deploying drones to track monkeys that are increasingly passing a rare strain of malaria to humans in Malaysian Borneo. The latest data available shows the number of cases among humans in Malaysia has increased from 376 cases in 2008 to 1,604 in 2016. The drones are monitoring movements of the macaques as rampant deforestation destroys their habitats and drives them closer to human areas in search of food. A drone flies over an area where a monkey has been found carrying the disease
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine is deploying drones to track monkeys that are increasingly passing a rare strain of malaria to humans in Malaysian Borneo. The drones are monitoring movements of the macaques as rampant deforestation destroys their habitats and drives them closer to human areas in search of food. A drone flies over an area where a monkey has been found carrying the disease