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Land mines and tuberculosis are no match for Tanzanian ‘hero rats’ sniffing out danger and disease

Summary by Chek News
MOROGORO, Tanzania (AP) — A man lies unmoving, slumped in the rubble of a simulated earthquake, as an unlikely rescuer approaches: a rat with a backpack. Whiskers waving, the rat breezes past garbage, toppled furniture and scattered clothes to find him and pull a trigger on its pack, alerting searchers above. Then a resounding click. A survivor has been found. The search in Morogoro in Tanzania’s Uluguru Mountains is over and the rat scurries ou…
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Chek news broke the news in Victoria, Canada on Saturday, September 6, 2025.
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