Dutch scientists train bees to detect coronavirus infections – providing results immediately...

Will this new technology be adopted?

 

Oh, I thought you were saying that no one could bee compelled to take the test (so the problem of people not going to get tested, would remain). But, if this were a practical idea, there's no reason why any government couldn't, based upon studies of its effectiveness (accuracy), give expedited approval of the method, as was done with the vaccines, themselves.

While it is fascinating that this understanding can bee established beetween humans and insects-- and I bet they grasp the concept rapidly-- yet I have a hard time imagining this beeing done, here, especially on a large-scale. That would mean medical personnel essentially becoming bee-keepers. Beesides, we are hoping to move beeyond the point of our primary focus beeing on testing, or even on efforts to lessen transmission, if we can achieve sufficient levels of vaccination. This technique might bee applicable, though, to some parts of the world, still waiting for vaccines.

I wonder what other things bees could detect-- this was a really incredible idea! And there's even an aesthetic balance to the concept of these bees sticking out their tongues, in thanks to the Dutch, for providing them so many tulips.

 

Not a prognosis, of course, but how can you know, in advance, that bees aren't reliable diagnostic tools? What if a study was done, with scores of thousands of tests, and the bees' accuracy was 100%, or at least higher than some, or all, of our man-made tests?

 

You know as well as I know that beelieving that would bee wrong ... and that bee the truth. Laboratory testing is carried out on a system of cross-referencing while bees bee bumblin' n' buzzin'.

 

Not sure it will catch on

 

No. Just no.

 

oh heck no

 

This is certainly good news in that the somewhat long wait to detect COVID 19 may well be getting much more easy and faster.






https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1894...n the Netherlands used,can take hours or days.


Dutch researchers train honeybees to detect COVID-19

https://thehill.com/policy/energy-e...-train-bees-to-identify-coronavirus-infection

Scientists train bees to identify coronavirus infection
BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO - 05/08/21 01:56 PM EDT

The fact that the bees can be trained within a few minutes sounds especially promising for the future of the fight against COVID 19.

It is also promising that a machine has been developed to train bees even in third world nations.

 

There are several promising developments mentioned in this article. I do like the idea of better vaccines than the existing ones being developed by Artificial Intelligence.


https://www.news.com.au/technology/...d/news-story/c4adb797d0a282c44d06a8b9b92efd81


Dutch scientists teach bees to detect COVID-19
The global threat of COVID-19 has left scientists around the world scurrying for new solutions. But this may be the strangest yet.