APOPO: Training Rats to Rid the World of Landmines and Tuberculosis

The following is a conversation between Christophe Cox, President and CEO of APOPO, and Denver Frederick, the Host of The Business of Giving. APOPO is a global nonprofit that trains African giant pouched rats, nicknamed HeroRATS, to detect landmines or tuberculosis using their extraordinary sense of smell. APOPO’s scent detection technology has a massive potential to relieve human suffering, not just in these two areas but potentially in other unexplored fields as well. And here to tell us how this all works and the impact that it has had, is Christophe Cox, the Co-founder and CEO of APOPO.