It is thanks to artificial intelligence and an app that in Africa you can protect yourself from anger.
Indeed, it all revolves around an application developed in Blantyre, a city in Malawi, which helps halve the time to complete animal vaccination programs.
This app allows you to quickly locate areas that have had low inoculation rates, allowing them to act faster and with fewer staff.
Rabies, researchers from the University of Edinburgh explain in a paper published in the scientific journal PNAS, is a potentially fatal disease transmitted to humans mainly through dog bites.
It is responsible for around 60,000 deaths worldwide each year, 40% of which are children.
According to scholarship forecasts, more than one million people worldwide will die of rabies between 2020 and 2035 if vaccination rates for dogs, associated with treatment immediately after a bite, do not increase.
The app, which was developed by the Scottish university together with the charity Mission Rabie and the World Veterinary Service, allows the team to record vaccination data and access GPS locations.
Thanks to this work, they targeted 70% of the city's dog population (around 35,000 animals) and vaccinated them in 11 days, compared to 20 estimated with the previous approach.
