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Apopo on the frontpage of the New York Times
'For Sniffing Out Land Mines, a Platoon of Twitching
Noses' is the headline of the frontpage of the New York Times, May
18th.
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Tuberculose detection
Early this month, APOPO got awarded by the World Bank's 'development
marketplace' to investigate the possibilities of training African giant rats
as a cheap diagnostic tool for early TB detection in Tanzania. Preliminary
experiments showed that trained animals were able to discriminiate positive
from negative sputum samples, collected in local health centers. If
successful, this diagnostic method may have a high impact on TB control in
low income countries. In 2004 APOPO plans to resume the R&D program.
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Limpopo: results of the first tests on a real minefield
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