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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Giant 3ft rats trained to sniff out deadly viruses like Covid-19 that jump from animals to humans
Professor Rudovick Kazwala from Sokoine University in Morogoro, Tanzania said rats have been trained to sniff out tuberculosis but hope the creatures can move onto Brucellosis, an infection that spreads from animals to people
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The Government-funded project is aimed at teaching giant rats to sniff out Brucellosis (Image: Peter Kovalev/TASS)
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