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Since September 2021, we have been working on training dogs using a "decoy"
produced by the Pasteur Institute in Paris (supernatant of inactivated viral cell cultures
vs. supernatant of uncontaminated cell culture) with success, since thanks to this decoy,
the dogs can also detect the virus on masks worn.

The future? The hope of an intelligent deployment, the work that is beginning with
Handi'Chiens to train a COVID-19 screening, the dogs to help people with reduced
mobility positioned in EPHAD, the desirable involvement of all administrations with
olfactory detection dogs... And perhaps finally a new perception of the dog in our
societies, which has become a real auxiliary of human health!

Source : NEW SPECIAL, February 2022
Translated with Deepl Application

THE LÉMAN HAS HAD ITS TSUNAMI

By Dominique MODAFFARI

During a recent exhibition in Evian entitled “The fertile mountain”, Ferdinand Holder,
through his paintings showed the romantic landscape of our lake, a landscape so
peaceful, so comforting, so pleasant.

However, those who know the lake know that there is another side to it. A legend
existed in which they told about a major catastrophe that ravaged the banks of the Lake.
Was it really a legend?

In two ancient texts,
attributed to Bishop Marius
d’Avenche (Bishop of
Lausanne) and Bishop
Grégoire de Tours (Bishop
of Tours), and as related in
one of their respective
chronicles (566, Post-
th
Consulate of Basilius, 25
th
year, 14 indiction) in 563
an enormous wave ravaged the banks of the lake and all the way to Geneva. This
wave was, in fact, the result of the collapse of the Tauredunum mountain in the
Gramont region which dominates Saint Gingolph at the end of the lake in the Valais.
One should be aware that the lake in the VI century began in Saint Maurice where the
Rhône forged a narrow passage, the alluvium having gradually formed the delta as far
as Bouveret.

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