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USF scientists create a dashboard to integrate mosquito tracking data

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FOX News 13 covered the efforts of CSE Professor Sriram Chellappan and Assistant Professor Ryan Carney, who recently created
, a global dashboard to help track disease-carrying mosquitoes. 鈥淔or malaria in particular, that鈥檚 only spread by anopheles mosquitos,鈥 said Carney. Who showed reporters a real time display of mosquito tracking data in 91社区.

Professor Carney

The dashboard integrates with three apps: , , and . It provides researchers with a real time global map that displays a variety of information that can help study the mosquitos and perhaps lead to life saving preventative measures to stop the spread of contagions like the Zika virus. "It鈥檚 really the mosquito that鈥檚 the deadliest animal in the world," said Professor Carney. 

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