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Is there anything a dog can't do?

Emotional support animals, medical support animals, drug sniffing dogs, bed bug sniffing dogs...and soon Coronavirus sniffing dogs!

YES!

A new program at theUniversity of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine (Penn Vet) has scientests and researchersworking with dogs to see if their nosescan help with early detection of COVID-19 in humans.

In this program happening right now,8 dogs are being trained in a laboratory setting. Over three weeks, they will first learn to recognize the smell of COVID-19 in saliva and urine samples from infected patients (through an imprintingtechnique) and will then be tested to see if they can detect the infected samples from the non-infected samples.

Cynthia Otto, a Vet and director ofPenn Vet's Working Dog Center says:

"The potential impact of these dogs and their capacity to detect COVID-19 could be substantial.This study will harness the dog's extraordinary ability to support the nation's COVID-19 surveillance systems, with the goal of reducing community spread."

So when could we start seeing COVID-19 sniffing dogs? These trained dogs could be ready to start sniffing humans by July.

For more info on this training click here: COVID Sniffing Dogs

Read more:
Dogs Being Trained to Sniff Out COVID-19 - RADIO.COM

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