Dogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe
NPRDogs are sniffing out disease in animals vital to traditions of the Blackfeet tribe Enlarge this image toggle caption Aaron Bolton/Kaiser Health News Aaron Bolton/Kaiser Health News Kenneth Cook used a mallet and a chisel to crack into a pig's skull in the gravel driveway outside his home on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in northwestern Montana. The disease is already forcing tribal members to alter or abandon traditional practices like brain tanning, said Souta Calling Last, a Blackfeet researcher and executive director of the nonprofit cultural and educational organization Indigenous Vision. Enlarge this image toggle caption Aaron Bolton/Kaiser Health News Aaron Bolton/Kaiser Health News The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people don't eat meat from animals that test positive, though there's no proof the disease can be transmitted to humans. Enlarge this image toggle caption Aaron Bolton/Kaiser Health News Aaron Bolton/Kaiser Health News Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania's veterinary school have been studying whether dogs can detect chronic wasting disease in the lab, but the project on the Blackfeet reservation is the first attempt to do so in the field, according to Vasquez.
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