IN her office deep inside the College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences at Glasgow University – past the specimen cases, a musty-smelling library and the raft of tightly packed shelves filled with antiquated tomes – Professor Sarah Cleaveland hands me a wine glass. Have I stumbled upon the party department of the university? Cleaveland gives a hearty laugh. Oh dear, I m afraid this is giving you the wrong impression, she says, smiling. I hasten to add that my tipple is merely water but Cleaveland, a veterinary surgeon and Professor of Comparative Epidemiology, certainly has good reason to celebrate: she was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of her globally-renowned work on infectious diseases.
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Scots scientists believe rats could help in fight against coronavirus SCOTS scientists believe rats could be trained to sniff out Covid. University of Glasgow academics are currently supporting a project that is training sniffer rats to detect a disease that is devastating livestock farmers in the world’s poorest countries. Brucellosis is a highly contagious zoonotic disease that causes humans flu-like symptoms, problems in bones, joints and heart, and in some cases death. But it is expensive and hard to detect. And now the University of Glasgow is working with researchers at Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania on a project funded by the to use sniffer rats to tackle the problem.
Scots scientists using giant âsnifferâ rats to identify deadly animal diseases
Glasgow University scientists are using the clever rodents to sniff out brucellosis - a disease that devastates livestock
One of the giant rats being used in the Glasgow University project. (Image: Daily Record)
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