Health
Our canine helpers can detect the scent of COVID-19 in human sweat after only four days of training – BBC Focus Magazine
It takes just a few seconds for dogs to sniff out COVID-19 in humans.
For more than 15,000 years, dogs have hunted with us, pulled our sleds, protected us, and even provided a furry shoulder to cry on. Could they now help us fight the coronavirus, too?
A new review paper published in the Journal Of The American Osteopathic Association suggests they can. Tommy Dickey, a professor emeritus at the University of California Santa Barbara, and his collaborator BioScents Heather Junqueira, pored over all the current research available and found that dogs were capable of…
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