{"id":480,"date":"2020-12-11T11:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=480"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T11:39:59","slug":"dogs-can-be-trained-to-detect-covid-19-by-sniffing-human-sweat-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"Dogs can be trained to detect COVID-19 by sniffing human sweat, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dogs can be trained to detect\u00a0COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0by sniffing human sweat, according to a proof-of-concept study published yesterday.<\/div>\n
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Detection dogs are already a common sight in airports and some other public places – usually, they’re sniffing out drugs, weapons or explosives.<\/div>\n
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But specially trained dogs have also been taught to detect infections and diseases, including colon cancer, malaria<\/div>\n
and Parkinson’s disease.<\/div>\n
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Now, many countries worldwide are exploring the possibility of using dogs as a rapid, reliable and relatively cheap way to prescreen people for COVID-19 or perform rapid checking in certain circumstances, like at airports.<\/div>\n
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In the United Kingdom, a team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are training six dogs in the hope that they will be able to detect COVID-positive people – even if they have no symptoms.<\/div>\n
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In Finland, a group of sniffer dogs trained to detect COVID-19 began working at Helsinki Airport in September in an effort to identify those who have contracted the virus and in Chile police dogs are being trained to sniff out COVID-19 in humans.<\/div>\n
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