{"id":185796,"date":"2024-03-22T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-startup-wants-to-fight-growing-global-dengue-outbreaks-with-drones"},"modified":"2024-03-22T16:27:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T21:27:47","slug":"this-startup-wants-to-fight-growing-global-dengue-outbreaks-with-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/this-startup-wants-to-fight-growing-global-dengue-outbreaks-with-drones","title":{"rendered":"This startup wants to fight growing global dengue outbreaks with drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-wants-to-fight-growing-global-dengue-outbreaks-with-drones.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge is getting into those hidden places,\u201d says Machado. \u201cIt\u2019s rare that Aedes aegypti breeding areas are found out in the open, like on a sidewalk, because when people see them, they destroy them. But with drones, we can get into areas we just can\u2019t otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Birdview has carried out studies with several partners since 2021, including the United Nations, the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP), and the state-owned Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), to better understand the effectiveness of releasing the disease-fighting mosquitoes with drones. First they looked at how the mechanism of the drone and outside conditions, like wind turbulence, affected the survival rate of the mosquitoes and their ability to fly.<\/p>\n<p>The results were positive, so they moved on to flight-and-release tests in the Brazilian states of Pernambuco and Paran\u00e1, as well as Florida, where they\u2019ve been working with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lcmcd.com\/\">Lee County Mosquito Control District<\/a> to see how far the mosquitoes spread upon release. They used the \u201cmark, release and recapture\u201d method, which involves sterile male mosquitoes being marked with a certain color before being released and later recaptured with traps so the team could see how far they had flown. They also set traps where eggs could be laid and monitored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe challenge is getting into those hidden places,\u201d says Machado. \u201cIt\u2019s rare that Aedes aegypti breeding areas are found out in the open, like on a sidewalk, because when people see them, they destroy them. But with drones, we can get into areas we just can\u2019t otherwise.\u201d Birdview has carried out studies with several partners [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}