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In a new study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, health researchers make the case for using real-time cell-phone data to track and mitigate major disease outbreaks. 在麻省理工学院进行的一项新研究中，健康研究员提出使用实时手机数据跟踪和遏制重大疾病突发。 Unfortunately, several barriers—including privacy concerns and a lack of data legislation—are likely to stop this kind of information from ever getting to researchers. 不幸的是，研究人员在获取这些数据时遇到了一些障碍，如对隐私的担忧、缺乏与数据相关的法律。 Earlier this year, researchers at MIT set out to see if they could reasonably predict how a disease might move through a city by looking at commute routes. 今年早些时候，麻省理工学院的研究人员准备要看看他们是否能通过观察通勤路线来对疾病在城市中的传播方式做出合理预测。 Through a deal with Singapore telecom Singtel, MIT researchers were able to get access to four months’ worth of anonymized cell-phone location data from 2011. 通过与新加坡电信公司合作，麻省理工学院的研究人员成功获取了2011年起 4个月的匿名手机定位数据。 The disease they were tracking was a 2013 outbreak of dengue fever, a virus transmitted via mosquito that manifests in headaches, muscle pain, and vomiting. | 
