Kindly Share This Story:By Sola Ogundipe MAN’S best friend plays a role in preventing the spread of COVID-19. Dogs can be trained to detect malaria, now the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, LSHTM, Medical Detection Dogs and Durham University aim to find out if they can detect COVID-19. The team has begun preparations to intensively train dogs so they could be ready in six weeks to help provide a rapid, non-invasive diagnosis towards the tail end of the epidemic. The researchers believe that the dogs could supplement ongoing testing by screening for the virus accurately and rapidly, potentially triaging up to 250 people per hour. READ ALSO: Covid-19 Palliatives: Wike commits N2Billion to foodstuff for Rivers people “Our previous work demonstrated that dogs can detect odours from humans with a malaria infection with extremely high accuracy – above the World Health Organization standards for a diagnostic,” said Professor James Logan, Head of the Department of Disease Control at LSHTM and Director of ARCTEC. “It’s early days for COVID-19 odour detection. We do not know if COVID-19 has a specific odour yet, but we know that other respiratory diseases change our body odour so there is a chance that it… Read full this story
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