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Rats CREATE Food!!!
THEY DO.
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There are currently 76 countries and territories around the world that are affected by landmines and/or explosive remnants of war. In many countries, mines block people’s access to roads, schools, health care, water supplies, jobs, and opportunities to get ahead. Landmines injure and kill innocent people every day, and sadly many of them are children.
Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading killer of youth and adults in the world, and every second someone new contracts TB. These are daunting numbers, but a local, cheap, and efficient solution exists: HeroRATs!
One HeroRAT can clear 100 square meters of a landmine field in 20 minutes; that same area would take two days work for a manual deminer. In Mozambique, HeroRATs and their human colleagues have returned 1,312,027 square meters of land back to the community and over 44,547 people have benefited from our mine clearance activities.
A HeroRAT can screen 40 samples for tuberculosis in seven minutes, equal to what a skilled lab technician can do in a day. In 2009, the HeroRATs found 561 people with active TB missed in the hospitals. If left untreated, the average person with active TB can spread the disease to 10 – 15 people each year. This means that through their work, the HeroRATs prevented 7,590 people from contracting TB in 2009 alone!
Learn more about the amazing work of these life-saving rats at www.herorat.orgor read about the science behind it at www.apopo.org. You can also adopt a HeroRAT, to get an inside look at their work!
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Comment by Elastika on April 3, 2010 at 5:39pm
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very fascinating!
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Comment by Michele Baron on April 3, 2010 at 5:43pm
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Rats are intrinsic to ecosystems around the world. Kind of similar to microbacteria in potential (positive and deleterious), in many ways. Good post; thank you.
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Comment by Riko Kamachi on April 3, 2010 at 5:49pm
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I really want to know more about this! Thank you for sharing :)
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Comment by Kath-Ning on April 3, 2010 at 6:40pm
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I had no idea. This is great info! Thanks for posting it!
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Comment by Sarah Shaw Tatoun on April 5, 2010 at 7:26pm
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Wow! I wish I'd known about this a few months ago. I was in Laos and Cambodia, where landmines are a huge problem and lots of people have lost limbs to them. It's especially bad in Cambodia, where people are so poor and government services for those handicapped by landmines are almost non-existent. This gives me a lot of hope that the problem is -- at least potentially-- curable. Will look into herorat.
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Comment by M. on April 11, 2010 at 4:37am
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The things I learn on this site ... thanks for sharing this, Floatstone.
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