Tick bite mapping

Address a range of global health issues in our online course Geo-Health

MODEL TO PREDICT TICK ACTIVITY IN THE NETHERLANDS

By combining 10 years’ worth of monthly tick captures by volunteers with weather data, satellite images and land use data, we were able to develop a tick prevalence prediction model.

“On the basis of tekenradar.nl tick bite reports given since 2013 we know that half of the 1,500,000 tick bites the Dutch suffer annually, occur in June and July,” says Arnold van Vliet of Wageningen University, the initiator of Nature Today. Professor Raul Zurita-Milla, of the Geo-Information Processing department (ITC faculty), says that the tick app is a good example of applied team science that also has a direct social impact. “We hope that our model will help people understand the risks of a tick bite.”

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