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 moves them closer to human settlements in search of food . Malaysian Borneo has seen a surge in cases of “monkey malaria”, a strain of the disease that normally only affects macaques, caused by the parasite Plasmodium knowlesi. Each vehicle is controlled via laptop with imaging stitched together to produce a display that enables them to identify potential future danger areas .
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 moves them closer to human settlements in search of food . Each vehicle is controlled via laptop with imaging stitched together to produce a display that enables them to identify potential future danger areas .