PATRICK GALEY, AFP
24 MAY 2021
Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to new research available in preprint, which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals.
Using their remarkable sense of smell - which can pick up the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an Olympic-sized swimming pool - dogs have already shown that they can sniff out maladies such as cancer, malaria and epilepsy.
Researchers from the London School of Tropical Medicine wanted to see if dogs could detect a distinctive odor given off from chemical compounds associated with someone who is COVID positive but doesn t show symptoms.
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Dogs that have been trained to sniff out the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), are seen at Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 21, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva)
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PARIS: Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 per cent of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published on Monday (May 23), which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals.
Using their remarkable sense of smell - which can pick up the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an Olympic-sized swimming pool - dogs have already shown that they can sniff out maladies such as cancer, malaria and epilepsy.
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Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90% of Covid-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published Monday, which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals.