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Dogs in training to sniff out American Foulbrood in beehives
20 Jan, 2021 03:30 AM
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The Country
New training to help dogs sniff out highly infectious bacterial disease American Foulbrood in beehives could save New Zealand s beekeeping industry several million dollars a year.
The project aims to develop a scientific methodology for training detection dogs to reliably sniff out American Foulbrood (AFB), by creating a scent picture of the disease.
It s led by DownUnder Honey, in partnership with Pete Gifford from K9 Search Medical Detection Training Centre, and Massey University researchers. A big part of the project is trying to come up with a pure form of the disease that can be grown in the lab, with no possibility of other scents in the mix, owner of DownUnder Honey, Jason Prior said.
Press Release – Ministry For Primary Industries Training dogs to sniff out the highly infectious bacterial disease American Foulbrood (AFB) in beehives could save New Zealands beekeeping industry several million dollars a year. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is contributing $50,000 …
Training dogs to sniff out the highly infectious bacterial disease American Foulbrood (AFB) in beehives could save New Zealand’s beekeeping industry several million dollars a year.
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is contributing $50,000 through Sustainable Food & Fibre Futures (SFF Futures) towards the one-year, $95,000 project.
The project aims to develop a scientific methodology for training detection dogs to reliably detect AFB, by creating a ‘scent picture’ of the disease.