The story of rats fighting TB, landmines to save human life

An African Pouched Rat busy at work sniffing out human sputum to detect TB pathogens. PHOTO | FILE

By  Louis Kolumbia

What you need to know:

  • Under the partnership of Belgian non-governmental organisation Apopo and the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA), trained ‘African Pouched Rats’ have saved 17,000 lives in Tanzania

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