Dogs Can Be Trained to Sniff COVID-19 Infections, Even Asymptomatic Cases: Study
Paris: According to research published Monday, dogs can be trained to detect more than 90% of Covid-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, which the researchers hope would eliminate the need to quarantine new arrivals. Dogs have also shown that their remarkable sense of smell, which can detect the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an Olympic-sized swimming pool, can detect diseases such as cancer, malaria, and epilepsy. In previous research, dogs were shown to be able to detect SARS-CoV-2. The London School of Tropical Medicine wanted to see whether dogs could detect a dis...