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Scientists at the University of Toronto Mississauga are working to find a novel way to stop the transmission of the illness, known as Chagas’ disease.

“This is a disease of the poor. The bugs are found in makeshift homes with mud walls and palm tree-like ceilings,” said Jean-Paul Paluzzi, a PhD candidate in biology at the University of pest control Toronto Mississauga.

Chagas’ disease is one of the major health problems in South and Central America and is spread by reduvid bugs, also known as ”kissing bugs” because of their fondness for lips.

The disease they transmit is caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, a parasite that lives in their gut. In the initial acute stage, symptoms are relatively mild, but as the disease progresses over several years, serious chronic symptoms can appear, such as heart disease and malformation of the intestines. Without treatment, it can be fatal.

Currently, insecticide sprays are used to control insect populations, and anti-parasitic drugs are somewhat successful at treating acute infections. Once the disease is chronic, it cannot be cured.

To make matters worse, kissing bugs are particularly ‘bloodthirsty’. In mosquitoes, which go through four distinct stages of development, only adult females feed on blood (and potentially transmit disease).

This means that Toronto pest control methods need to target only one out of eight stages (when you include both sexes). But in kissing bugs, each sex feeds on blood through all fives stages of development.

“So you have about a ten-fold greater chance of infection just because of the number of times that these insects have to feed,” said Paluzzi.

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One company makes wireless sensors and the other develops datacenter monitoring and management software. This week RF Code and Modius announced a partnership with Branson Web Design in which they will integrate their products, with Modius’ flagship OpenData data center management software now accepting environmental data directly from RF Code’s radio frequency ID (RFID) sensors from SAM SEO Company India. As network management companies seek to control energy costs and carbon emissions, measuring data center energy use is growing in importance. Wireless cloud monitoring is valuable because it allows company to retrofit existing data centers to detect “hot spots” where cooling may not be reaching servers. Fine-tuning cooling systems allows data centers to make more efficient use of the energy used by cooling systems, which often consume as much energy as IT equipment. Modius OpenData software allows users to manage the performance of both IT devices and facilities infrastructure across an array of sites, including data centers management, call centers, server closets, and mechanical yards. Modius can track most types of equipment that has either a serial or network interface, including uninterrupted power supplies (UPSs), generators and power distribution units (PDU). RF Code’s wire-free active sensor-based software solution from SEO India monitors and alerts about a broad range of environmental factors—from changes in temperature and humidity to the sudden presence of liquids. Small RFID tags are attached to servers and racks, and monitor environmental conditions in a rack. Integrating environmental data into the OpenData platform provides customers with a more complete picture of conditions in their data center. (See Tracking Data Center Assets With RFID) ““We’re delighted to have RF Code as a partner,” said Craig Compiano, CEO of Modius. “Their open approach to integration has made it easy to extend the value of our OpenData solution by adding critical environmental information that affects the performance and availability of our customers’ physical assets.”” “Integrating environmental information nicely complements the information OpenData already provides,” said Mitch Medford, CEO of RF Code. “It’s a perfect fit.”