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5/6/21

The Netherlands: Bees in the Netherlands trained to detect COVID-19 infections- by Bart Biesemans

Dutch researchers have trained bees, which have an unusually keen sense of smell, to identify samples infected with COVID-19, a finding they said could cut waiting times for test results to just seconds.

To train the bees, scientists in the bio-veterinary research laboratory at Wageningen University gave them sugary water as a reward after showing them samples infected with COVID-19. They would get no reward after being shown a non-infected sample.

Read more at: Bees in the Netherlands trained to detect COVID-19 infections | Reuters

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