Researchers from Belgium seem to have hit upon a new way of spotting potential infection in travellers.
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They revealed that installing microphones in areas like a departure lounge would help detect and diagnose different kinds of coughs, reports New Scientist.
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Later the sound classification algorithms would help identify whether the noise is a harmless throat clearing or a "productive" cough that may signal infection.
Moreover, the loudness of a cough in different microphones would also make it spot the location of the infected person.
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"Governments and national or private health agencies can use this information from several users to gain information about the spread of respiratory disease," the patent claims.
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