App could help track diseases before they spread

A new online database and smartphone app
could help to combat diseases spread by insects and other pests
before they cause an epidemic. The system, known a Vecmap,
combines satellite data with field research to provide in-depth
information on the spread of diseases.

By combining a smartphone app with a large
and powerful centralised database it aims to track diseases and the
bugs that spread them better than ever before. Currently
individual public health&