PARIS — Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published on Monday, which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals.
Using their remarkable sense of smell — which can pick up the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an Olympic-sized swimming pool — dogs have already shown that they can sniff out maladies such as cancer, malaria, and epilepsy.
Several previous studies have shown proof-of-concept that dogs can detect SARS-CoV-2.
Researchers from the London School of Tropical Medicine wanted to see if dogs could detect a distinctive odor given off f…
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