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意大利APP提供实时“蚊子热点”

Smartphones are being used to combat the dreaded mosquito in Italy, with a new app that tracks the location of the blood-sucking pests.

意大利人很怕蚊子，于是用上智能手机来抵御蚊害：一种新开发的应用程序将能追踪到这种吮血物种的形迹。

The free app, called ZanzaMapp, gathers information from the public in order to highlight hot spots of mozzie activity in real time. The mosquito heat map will allow people to avoid areas with high concentrations of bugs, and help authorities to better direct pest control efforts, the project's website notes. It also enables users to upload photos so that experts can determine which species have been found and where.

这是一款免费应用，名为“ZanzaMapp”，它可以搜集公共场所信息，然后实时给出蚊虫猖獗的热点。项目官网称，这些蚊子热点地图能帮人们避开蚊虫集中区，也有助于政府更有效地实施灭蚊措施。它还允许用户上传自己拍到的蚊虫照片，便于专家帮忙识别蚊子种类及其活动范围。

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The app's creator, expectant father Cesare Bianchi from Rome's Sapienza University, says he was driven by a lack of information on how to deal with new threats such as the mosquito-borne Zika virus, which doctors believe causes severe birth defects.