IR Blogpost 2d: My Rat is Better than Your Microscope -popsci

In a recent study, a certain 10 pound rat species has been found to be extremely accurate at detecting tuberculosis. They have shown themselves to be even more reliable than microscopes. New technology has been developed to find the disease too, but as it turns out, using it costs $17,000 for each test. The rat is cheaper by far. I think thats actually pretty neat. And the rat is kind of cute..haha 790px-Cricetomys-gambianus.jpg. I was a little surprised though that the old method they used is 100 years old. So, I am not all that surprised that the rat was more accurate than a method that was invented 100 years ago. However, rats are still not used as first line detection method.