Quick Diagnosis Against Hidden Hunger as a Model for the Future

Quick Diagnosis Against Hidden Hunger as a Model for the Future

Micronutrient deficiency occurs in many different shapes and so it requires an efficient and effective diagnostic to determine how to help the best and most prompt.

Rapid tests against hidden hunger are not sufficiently available yet, also because it is hardly possible in a conventional way, to collect and process all the health-related data that would be necessary to create individually tailored recommendations against a specific micronutrient deficiency on-site.

A solution could be a super-computer, which is already being successfully tested against tuberculosis epidemics in the South African province of Kwazulu-Natal. The computer merges countless records on mutations in the genome that affect the individual response of the organism to tuberculosis pathogens and tuberculosis drugs. Through the aggregation of this data, patterns arise that make a precisely adapted prevention and treatment of these epidemics possible.

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C. Putsch. Dr. Watson – Mensch und Maschine gegen die Tuberkulose – Epidemie. https://www.wired.de/stories/big-data-im-kampf-gegen-tuberkulose-epidemie/

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