{"id":15129,"date":"2016-04-03T06:57:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T06:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/?p=15129"},"modified":"2016-04-03T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T15:42:10","slug":"ethiopia-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/ethiopia-drones","title":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Spanish Company Wants To Use Drones To Fight The Spread\u00a0Of A Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a6b39195b99473d6c9dd698db2668010\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:2px 0 2px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<center>\r\n\r\n<script type='text\/javascript'>\r\nfunction ShorterThan(widthMax) {\r\n                if (screen.width < widthMax) {return true;}  \r\n                else {return false}\r\n    }\r\nvar LimitWidth = 728\r\nvar MobileZoneID = 348996\r\nvar DesktopZoneID = 348995   \r\n<!--\/\/<![CDATA[\r\n   document.MAX_ct0 ='';\r\n   var m3_u = (location.protocol=='https:'?'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?':'https:\/\/cas.criteo.com\/delivery\/ajs.php?');\r\n   var m3_r = Math.floor(Math.random()*99999999999);\r\n   document.write (\"<scr\"+\"ipt type='text\/javascript' src='\"+m3_u);\r\n   if (ShorterThan(LimitWidth)) {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+MobileZoneID);} else {document.write (\"zoneid=\"+DesktopZoneID);}\r\n   document.write(\"&nodis=1\");\r\n   document.write ('&cb=' + m3_r);\r\n   if (document.MAX_used != ',') document.write (\"&exclude=\" + document.MAX_used);\r\n   document.write (document.charset ? 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And when they do, humans and livestock can contract trypanosomiasis. It is a parasite that causes sleeping sickness, which starts as exhaustion and fever, and can lead to death if left untreated. Ethiopian authorities have been fighting the spread of the disease thanks to\u00a0irradiation, which consists in exposing male flies to radiation which makes them sterile. By releasing those sterile flies to wild to significantly reduce the number of offspring.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15131\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15131\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15131\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/tsetse.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"700\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/tsetse.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/tsetse-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/tsetse-85x57.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaea.org\/technicalcooperation\/images\/Story_images\/2014\/Tstse\/Tsetse.jpg\">source<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As crazy as it sounds,\u00a0Embention,\u00a0a Spanish drone company, decided to tackle the problem in an initiative called\u00a0<em>Drones Against Tsetse<\/em>. The project consists of using drones to drop boxes of sterile flies in targeted areas instead of doing it manually. This solution is supposedly going to be cheaper and more precise than using teams in airplanes to deploy boxes of irradiated flies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;To be effective, they need to fly every day, so the cost involved in it decreases a lot because you don\u2019t need a trained pilot for this,&#8221; said Javier Espuch a drone designer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>A myriad of opportunities<\/h2>\n<p>According to Embention, each drone flight can release 5,000 flies from an altitude of 300 meters. The company is currently awaiting approval to launch the first operational flight in Ethiopia. If successful, a similar system could be used with mosquitoes as a way to fight against the spread of malaria.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15130\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15130\" style=\"width: 703px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-15130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/bae1b-this-drone-prototype-carry-precious-cargo-army-original.jpg\" alt=\"source\" width=\"703\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/bae1b-this-drone-prototype-carry-precious-cargo-army-original.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.afrizap.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/04\/bae1b-this-drone-prototype-carry-precious-cargo-army-original-85x64.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a 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