Consumer-grade drones are affordable and may reduce the time and effort needed to evaluate the health of people living in remote villages. The aquatic plants in waterways are easy to see from the air. They can provide a visual proxy for where schistosome-carrying snails are located, suggesting that there may be higher human infection rates in that area. That information could lead to better data on the distribution of human infections and, therefore, to more efficient drug allocation.
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