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.

A study funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Royal Society and the US State Department, and published in Trends in Parasitology, discusses how listening to the sounds of an ecosystem can help in the understanding of factors that drive the spread of disease between animals and people.