Sensor Project 2022

Farewell Lunch to Cosmo, he will be flying back to the UK. See you next time.

“The question now is: how do we deal with zoonotic malaria?”

‘Something different might be going on’
It’s a question experts tracking the steady spread of monkey malaria – officially known as Plasmodium Knowlesi – have been grappling with for more than 20 years.

Malaysia was on the brink of eliminating malaria – then a new parasite swung out of the jungle A new malaria parasite, like HIV, comes from monkeys. With thousands already infected, experts fear it could one day spread between humans

Kamruddin said previous evidence shows that the increase in P. Knowlesi cases is strongly linked to deforestation, with people working in logging camps or plantations at forest fringes most at risk.

Dr Kimberly Fornace from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the National University of Singapore said this poses major challenges for malaria control in this region.

She said many of the existing malaria control measures, such as sleeping under bed nets and frequent testing for malaria, are not effective when there is a wildlife host.

No evidence monkey malaria is adapting to spread between humans, says new study KOTA KINABALU: The “monkey malaria” is not adapting to spread between humans yet but there are challenges in preventing its spread due to the wide availability of animal hosts in the country, says a new study.

We are here today at SAFE (Stability at Altered Forest Ecosystem, Benta Wawasan Menggaris Estate.

We are in the Danau Girang Field Centre now...
Thank you volunteer for these few day of helping to carry our gears.

Penyelidikan SENSOR, di Daerah Kalabakan.

Community Meeting at Murut Ulu Kalabakan before taking blood sample.

Emilia Johnson from the University of Glasgow’s School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine said emerging infectious diseases pose a significant burden on global public health.

She said there was a need to better understand diseases that crop up at the boundaries where human activity and wildlife habitats meet.

“Sound recording provides an opportunity to collect and analyse useful data in real-time and over very broad scales; in this way, acoustic surveys can complement existing surveillance methods and offer important new insight into the dynamic ecosystems that underpin infectious disease epidemiology,” she said.

Sound check: Acoustic tools can help track disease spread in rainforest areas, study finds KOTA KINABALU: Low-cost microphones could be a cost-effective, non-invasive tool to help track infectious disease risks in the rainforest and other rapidly-changing landscapes, research indicates.

"By recording the sounds that animals make, we can detect changes in wildlife that could impact human disease risk; for example, tracking the changes in frequency of animal calls to identify mass mortality in wildlife due to a disease outbreak," said Dr Kimberly Fornace from University of Glasgow.

"Acoustic data could be used to detect changes in the location or behaviours of animals in areas where zoonotic diseases (like malaria, yellow fever, rabies, trypanosomiasis and Rift Valley fever) exist and could pose a risk to humans and animals.

"While acoustic monitoring won't replace existing field-based methods used to track disease risk, we believe it could be a novel and useful tool when used in combination with current methods," Fornace added.

Rainforest sound-check to track infectious disease risks draws interest | New Straits Times KOTA KINABALU: Sounds recorded using microphones could be used to help track infectious disease risks in the rainforests and other landscapes.

Askera Camp Luasong.

Semalam kami menjalani latihan untuk mengambil sampel darah dan mengisi borang survey. Latihan ini dijalankan oleh Dr.Benny.