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Doctors Train Dogs to Detect Deadly Bacteria

Description:Doctors are training dogs to detect deadly bacteria. People have often used dog’s heightened sense of smell for things like hunting and law enforcement.Now, Dutch doctors have trained a beagle to sense Clostridium difficile, a bacteria that can cause 'severe, hard-to-treat diarrhea and sometimes life-threatening colitis." The bacteria has reportedly been responsible for 14 thousand deaths every year in the U.S. (1:10)

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