If this is the case, it is entirely possible to train dogs to respond to a “certain” corona smell.
Similar to drug dogs when they find them at the airport.
At least that is what British doctors believe, reports the “New York Post”.
To do this, however, it must first be clarified whether people actually smell differently than usual if they have contracted the corona virus.
London (Great Britain) – It is known that dogs have particularly fine noses.
It is also known that different human diseases cause different smells that only dogs can perceive.
Now experts suspect that Covid-19 also exudes a very special scent that dogs can recognize.
Should the training of the dogs be successfully completed, the animals could supplement the virus tests currently used with their work and test about 250 people per hour.
In patients with malaria infection, this worked with extremely high accuracy.
But not only that.
According to the researchers, dogs can also detect the slightest temperature fluctuations in humans and thus recognize a rapidly rising fever, which can indicate an infection.
“There is a very, very good chance that Covid-19 has a specific smell, and if it does, I’m really confident that the dogs can learn that smell and recognize it,” believes James Logan.
“We know that diseases have smells – including respiratory diseases like flu – and that these smells are actually quite different,” said James Logan, director of disease control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).
According to the experts from LSHTM, the training of the dogs with the sensitive noses had already started.
It should be completed in about six weeks.
The hope is that the dogs can then recognize asymptomatic virus carriers.
These are people who carry the virus, are contagious, but have hardly any symptoms themselves and are therefore not currently being tested.
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