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Engineers from Google are working in collaboration with UNICEF to fight against the Zika Virus...

He said that a half dozen of its engineers are working to help a Brazil track the Zika virus and mosquito that spreads it's by doing one of the things the search engine to giant does best write algorithms.

Volunteer Google's engineers in San Francisco and it's New York  are working together Unicef counterparts to create a system that combines several types of data to help a predict where Aedes aegypti mosquito to might next be particularly active, helping into eradication efforts.

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Zika virus has to become an epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean since last fall.

The Zika virus is mainly spread through mosquito bites and has been to potential link to birth defects.

The data sets will include to movement of people gathered from cellular phone locator systems, weather patterns and epidemiological maps for the Zika virus outbreak from the Brazilian Ministry of Health.

We hoping to make predictions about where to next hotspots might appear, Chris Fabian, co-leader for UNICEF's Innovation Unit, said The Associated Press.

Fabian told the Unicef to do similar projects during the Ebola crisis in Sierra Leon and a recent dengue outbreak in Pakistan. Unicef's representative in Brazil Gary Stahl, said the data would be cross-referenced with epidemiological maps created by a country's Health Ministry.

The result could help to fumigators know better where to target, he said. We were hoping that what we can learn from Brazil can be useful in other countries. facing outbreaks of Zika virus, he said.

So, Google announced it was donating $1.5 million to Unicef for the fight against Zika.

He said in a blog post that it's in a good position to an assist since its mission for a help people find information, and it has to experience analysing huge sets of data.

The company have seen a more than 2,950 percent increase in global search interest in Zika virus since November.

Google's operates a large group of businesses, including to a dominant Internet search engine, under a holding company Alphabet Inc.

Google brought in an operating profit of $6.7 billion into last year's fourth quarter.

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