Disease-sniffing canines are proving to be faster and more accurate than lab-testing methods.
Several years ago, a group of researchers started to consider the possibility that the fate of Florida's orange groves could rest on the small, furry shoulders of an almost-three-year-old dog named Mira. Well, that's not entirely accurate: the fate of all of those oranges was actually resting on her little wet nose., a bacteria that is deadly to citrus trees.
ARS recently published some of its findings in the Proceedings of National Academies of Science . “This technology is thousands of years old—the dog’s nose,” USDA researcher and study co-author Timothy Gottwald. “We’ve just trained dogs to hunt new prey: the bacteria that causes a very damaging crop disease.”
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