Mobile Phones Used to Track Malaria Transmission Patterns

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Guys have you heard the news that researches from Harvard University used mobile phones in order to track malaria transmission patterns in Kenya? Their finding was actually based on an analysis of the mobile phone data of 15 million Kenyan subscribers. They found out that the disease primarily spreads east from the country’s Lake Victoria region toward Nairobi with people who travel to the country’s capital. They calculated the destination and duration of each phone user's trip away from their primary home, based on transmissions to and from the mobile phone carrier’s 12,000 transmission towers. Wow...truly, mobile phones are a great inventions! Researchers are using it to help our brothers and sisters who are suffering malaria to get rid of it....hope they will and that disease be totally eradicated.