The United Kingdom is in the process of training dogs to ‘sniff’ out symptoms of coronavirus before they appear in humans.....
The United Kingdom is in the process of training dogs to ‘sniff’ out symptoms of coronavirus before they appear in humans.The UK government is supporting the landmark trials to the tune of £500,000 under its funding of vital research into early methods of detecting the virus.
The dogs, a mixture of labradors and cocker spaniels, can already identify deadly diseases including cancer, malaria and Parkinson’s disease.They will be trained using samples of people infected with coronavirus and those who are uninfected, as some respiratory diseases are known to change body odour.
The first phase of the trials will be conducted by researchers at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine , in collaboration with the charity Medical Detection Dogs and Durham University.
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