Giant Rats put Noses to Work on Africa's Land Mine Epidemic

Ashoka Fellow Bart Weetjens' organization, APOPO, trains HeroRats (giant pouched rats) to detect land mines in Africa. Bart is also employing their superb noses to detect tuberculosis. 

Bart and APOPO were just featured in CNN, and you can read the article here:

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