This Kills 14,000 People A Year No Match For This Beagle
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The Detection Process takes 3 Days with Scientists,
Cliff The Beagle Can Do It In Seconds!
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After Watching This Video You Can Learn More About C-Diff
Clostridium difficile, a bacteria, causes severe diarrhea and colitis. It spreads quickly in hospitals, faster than hospital personnel can find and eradicate its source. Doctors have two tests for it and theoretically could use the tests to identify sick patients and prevent them from infecting others, but both have drawbacks. One of them takes days to yield a result, leaving plenty of time for the bacteria to spread. The other is expensive and not available at every hospital, Time reports.
Enter Cliff, a Dutch dog who provides instantaneous results for free. After two months of training, he graduated with stellar accuracy rates. He is a beagle, after all — a breed famous for their superior sense of smell, according to The Dogington Post. Dogs’ ”sense of smell is generally 10,000-100,000 times superior to that of humans.” Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/beagle-saves-human-lives-by-sniffing-out-fatal-pathogen.html#ixzz3zFPnF6kd