{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-572d6a42.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-f4d0de30.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='New app helps combat Zika' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54ca96d8eafeecae19d309' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54ca96d8eafeecae19d309' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nNew app helps combat Zika\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eFor Luciana Santos, doing her part in Brazil's fight to control the mosquito that spreads the Zika virus, dengue and other diseases is as easy as a couple of clicks on her smartphone.Santos lives in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro's sister city,...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFor Luciana Santos, doing her part in Brazil's fight to control the mosquito that spreads the Zika virus, dengue and other diseases is as easy as a couple of clicks on her smartphone.Santos lives in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro's sister city, where authorities recently launched an app called \"Sem Dengue,\" or \"Without Dengue.\" It allows residents to report stagnant water that can serve as a breeding ground for the Aedes aegypti mosquito.Brazil has stepped up its fight against Aedes since researchers here linked an outbreak of Zika virus with a surge in cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect that leaves babies with unusually small heads and brain damage that can cause mental retardation and a host of long-term problems.So, when Santos recently came across several puddles swimming with mosquito larvae while strolling on Jurujuba Beach with her parents and son, she snapped a photo and sent the shot through the app. The app's geo-locator function automatically tagged the picture with the exact spot it was made and sent a detailed alert to City Hall. Within 72 hours, officials had deployed a team to deal with the puddles.Dotted with washed-up trash and debris and lined with small wooden fishing boats, Jurujuba Beach is rife with potential mosquito breeding spots.When it rains, everything from the hulls of boats to plastic ice cream tubs and bottle caps fill with water, creating places where the insect can lay its eggs.The beach has become a regular stop for Niteroi's mosquito inspectors, who, thanks to the app, are now responding to ever-increasing numbers of complaints.Since its launch earlier this year, the app has generated hundreds of responses, Mayor Rodrigo Neves said. He said many of the reports pinpoint sites inside residential complexes or other private buildings that would be hard for the inspectors to find on their own.It's had the added benefit of increasing people's awareness of their surroundings and their own habits in this city of 490,000 people, Neves said.More than two dozen other mostly small-to-midsize cities throughout Brazil are using the app, which was developed by the Sao Paulo-based startup Colabo.re.Google and UNICEF, are also using the new technologies to help Brazil to track the Zika virus and the mosquito that spreads it by doing one of the things the search engine giant does best: write algorithms.Volunteer Google engineers in San Francisco and New York are working with UNICEF counterparts to create a system that combines several types of data to help predict where the Aedes aegypti mosquito might next be particularly active, helping in eradication efforts.The data sets will include the movement of people gathered from cellular phone locator systems and weather patterns that would be cross-referenced with epidemiological maps created by the country's Health Ministry. The result could help fumigators know better which areas to target. Chris Fabian, co-leader of UNICEF's Innovation Unit, said they did similar projects during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and a dengue outbreak in Pakistan, among others.For Luciana Santos, doing her part in Brazil's fight to control the mosquito that spreads the Zika virus, dengue and other diseases is as easy as a couple of clicks on her smartphone.Santos lives in Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro's sister city, where authorities recently launched an app called \"Sem Dengue,\" or \"Without Dengue.\" It allows residents to report stagnant water that can serve as a breeding ground for the Aedes aegypti mosquito.Brazil has stepped up its fight against Aedes since researchers here linked an outbreak of Zika virus with a surge in cases of microcephaly, a rare birth defect that leaves babies with unusually small heads and brain damage that can cause mental retardation and a host of long-term problems.So, when Santos recently came across several puddles swimming with mosquito larvae while strolling on Jurujuba Beach with her parents and son, she snapped a photo and sent the shot through the app. The app's geo-locator function automatically tagged the picture with the exact spot it was made and sent a detailed alert to City Hall. Within 72 hours, officials had deployed a team to deal with the puddles.Dotted with washed-up trash and debris and lined with small wooden fishing boats, Jurujuba Beach is rife with potential mosquito breeding spots.When it rains, everything from the hulls of boats to plastic ice cream tubs and bottle caps fill with water, creating places where the insect can lay its eggs.The beach has become a regular stop for Niteroi's mosquito inspectors, who, thanks to the app, are now responding to ever-increasing numbers of complaints.Since its launch earlier this year, the app has generated hundreds of responses, Mayor Rodrigo Neves said. He said many of the reports pinpoint sites inside residential complexes or other private buildings that would be hard for the inspectors to find on their own.It's had the added benefit of increasing people's awareness of their surroundings and their own habits in this city of 490,000 people, Neves said.More than two dozen other mostly small-to-midsize cities throughout Brazil are using the app, which was developed by the Sao Paulo-based startup Colabo.re.Google and UNICEF, are also using the new technologies to help Brazil to track the Zika virus and the mosquito that spreads it by doing one of the things the search engine giant does best: write algorithms.Volunteer Google engineers in San Francisco and New York are working with UNICEF counterparts to create a system that combines several types of data to help predict where the Aedes aegypti mosquito might next be particularly active, helping in eradication efforts.The data sets will include the movement of people gathered from cellular phone locator systems and weather patterns that would be cross-referenced with epidemiological maps created by the country's Health Ministry. The result could help fumigators know better which areas to target. Chris Fabian, co-leader of UNICEF's Innovation Unit, said they did similar projects during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leone and a dengue outbreak in Pakistan, among others.FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4026720Niteroi, Brazil - 08 March 20161. Various of health agent taking stagnant water from a boat and showing the larva of a mosquito2. Various of health agents working for Niteroi City hall working at Jurujuba beach, looking for breeding grounds of mosquito Aedes Aegypti3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rodrigo Neves, Mayor of Niteroi:\"Through that app developed in partnership with Colabe. the citizen can register (take a picture) of possible breeding grounds for mosquito. So, through the app, he sends the information to City Hall and through the health surveillance, the municipal guard, the preservation secretary, the municipality acts immediately.\"4. Various of health agents checking boats 5. Various of Luciana Santos showing the picture of the boats that she took and sent to the authorities using the app6. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Luciana Santos, resident of Niteroi:\"You are always scared (of illnesses) but I think this app is useful to help people to be aware and not to have breeding grounds. (for aedes aegypti mosquito that transmits Zika, dengue and chikungunya)\"7. Various screen with the picture of the boats sent by Santos, Niteroi municipality employees viewing New York, US - 05 March 20168. Screen reading (English) \"Zika virus. Risk modelling. March 2016\"9. Engineers in a room10. Chris Fabian, co-leader of UNICEF's Innovation Unit11. SOUNDBITE (English) Chris Fabian, Co-leader of UNICEF's innovation unit:\"We are going to start looking at things like temperature, like household income and poverty, and things like people movement and mobility, where populations are moving. We think that those types of data will give us and our government's partners insight into where we most need to spend our efforts and our time in the Zika response.\" 12. 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