No Such Thing As A Pouched Rat On The Housing Ladder

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  Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,

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  a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Holborn.

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  My name is Anna Tyshinski, and I'm sitting here with James Harkin, Andrew Untamari, and not Dan Schreiber this week.

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  How much are we sharing about the reasons for his indisposition?

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  Well, he did message us this morning saying that he was sick, so unfortunately he's not here,

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  but we've all done the research already, so we're going to do it anyway.

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  So let's start with fact number one, and because I'm hosting this week, that is my fact,

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  and my fact this week is that a rat in Tanzania just retired after preventing 30,000 people from getting TB.

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  Lovely.

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  So this is a named rat.

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  It's a named rat.

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  It's not like a woman gives birth every six seconds.

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  Every time I click my fingers, a rat retires.

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  A rat who's prevented thousands of TB cases.

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  It's a specific rat, Carolina, yes.

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  And it's just something to make you all listeners and us feel quite underachieving about what we've done with our lives.

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  This is genuinely the effect it had on me.

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  Carolina, she's an African giant pouch rat, and she screens Flem samples for TB,

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  and she does it very quickly, much more effective than humans with microscopes or much quicker.

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  And they worked out that over seven years working in this job, she's detected over 3,000 cases of TB,

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