Jonathan Kalan appears in the following:
Ratting Out TB: Scientists Train Rodents To Diagnose Disease
Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Rats are notorious for spreading nasty diseases. Think the plague, lassa fever and even salmonella.
But could some jumbo-size African rodents help health workers diagnose diseases more quickly? They just might.
A group in Tanzania is training rats to detect tuberculosis in people. The critters in question are African giant ...