Monday, June 22, 2020, at 22:51
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The University of Twente has joined with two other schools to have an app developed to help tick bites is to prevent them. The number of people that, due to the tick being bitten increases over the last few years in the Netherlands. The app shows the expected sign of activity is seen in the vicinity of the user.
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With the launch of the app at the same time, with a Week of the Tick, which is today begun. Many organizations want to make people aware of the risks of a tick bite. The animals can be in people, Lyme disease can cause.
Ten years
The app allows users to see what the expected sign of activity. This will be calculated on the basis of the weather information, the average monthly tekenvangsten over the past ten years, satellite data, and landscape.
On a map, is to see whether or not the number of the character to a minimum, low, medium, high, or very high in a particular area. Also, you can have the app remind you to check for ticks when you are in nature you have.
Tick-bite prevention
The researchers expect that, thanks to the app, and more make an effort to get the result of a tick bite is to prevent it. The number of people being bitten increases over the last few years in the Netherlands: in 1996, it signed up to the GOVERNMENT to 600,000 bytes, in 2017, there will be 1.5 million.
The UNIVERSITY developed the app in partnership with HAS University of applied sciences and Wageningen University.
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