Tag Archives: Tuberculosis

As the globe marks World Tuberculosis day, the Federal Ministry of Health has highlighted reasons patients with Tuberculosis die silently. Olajumoke Adebari, an Assistant Director of Advocacy, Communication, and Social Mobilization unit of the national Tuberculosis program, said the disease kills silently because those infected delay in carrying out tests …

Africa’s giant rats have been trained to sniff out landmines and detect tuberculosis in humans, and soon they could turn their superior noses to protecting other animals by finding illegal wildlife trophies being smuggled out of African ports. African giant rat Kirsty Brebner, whose organisation Endangered Wildlife Trust had the …