The mobile phone software follows the trail of epidemic disease

The mobile phone software follows the trail of epidemic disease
The mobile phone software follows the trail of epidemic disease
British researchers develop the application program software of a mobile phone, record to the mobile phone machine master's contact target through bluetooth technology, trace that simulation tracks epidemic disease propagates. The application program is called " The influenza mobile phone " ,By researcher's development in the laboratory of computer of Cambridge University in 2010. Cambridge University is devoted to studying and lightening epidemic disease one of the 7 organizations influenced. Researchers enlist volunteers to make " Infect the source " ,Install the basic edition in their mobile phone " The influenza mobile phone " The procedure, launches for 3 months. Rely on bluetooth technology, act as two or more mobile phones are " contacted intimately " When, the procedure notes " infects the source " anonymously Contact target,last data subsequently automatically. Chief researcher Jon and Croake Professor Roft and sub doctor in Tianjin village Great Britain tell BBC (BBC) Reporter, these data can be used for imitating the social communication when disease prevail on a large scale. Tianjin village says: "How the cluster takes shape, how long people coexist for time, how about the frequency that meet, these data are offered valuable information, show the complicated network structure, very beneficial to understanding disease is propagated. " Croake and Roft says, it is to require the patient to record daily activity contents and social communication targets that the epidemiologist controls the traditional method that disease propagates. However, " that is a very difficult job, people will often forget the content, forget who does it meet " . Croake and Roft says, " influenza mobile phone " The procedure is a record " Infect the source " With more reliable way which others contact, " if we got people to permit, can upload the data, medical researchers can see who of volunteers have kept in touch who, do not omit at all " . "It is main routes that disease propagates to be exposed to others. " He says, " have this kind of information, the medical worker can put forward the instruction, help to slow down the spread speed of epidemic disease. " Researchers just finished " The influenza mobile phone " Upgrade edition, can plant to the volunteer's mobile phone into" fictitious pathogen " . Croake and Roft says, therefore research group can set about " fictitious experiment " ,Choose some volunteers' mobile phone as at random " Infect the target " ,The data collected help the government department to offer and treat the suggestion while epidemic disease propagate. He says: "We may be unable to prevent epidemic disease from spreading only according to these opinions, but if can slow down and infect the speed, it will be more effective that medical science is intervened, for example treat heavy patient, developing vaccine,etc.. " (yellow and quick)


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