Buzzing for human health

Honey bees are the heart of our ecosystem. They help pollinate many of the agricultural crops produced on Canadian farms, they support healthy habitats for wildlife, and they produce the honey we enjoy at our breakfast table.  But they can also help us better understand human health. In this episode, Maria Janser, a USask graduate student in the WCVM's Department of Veterinary Pathology and now a first-year medical student in the USask College of Medicine, joins hosts Cat and Lucas to discuss how honey bees can serve as social animal models for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in people.