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Home Agribusiness Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian ‘hero rats’ sniffing...

Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian ‘hero rats’ sniffing out danger and disease

September 4, 2025

MOROGORO, Tanzania — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and scattered clothes to find him and pull a trigger on its pack, alerting searchers above.Then a resounding click. A survivor…

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