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Sniffer dogs detect COVID-19 infections with 94 percent accuracy – News-Medical.Net
Dogs have an acute sense of smell. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to six million in humans, making their smell receptors up 10,000 to 100,000 more powerful than humans.
Dogs have an acute sense of smell. They have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to six million in humans, making their smell receptors up 10,000 to 100,000 more powerful than humans. The part of a dog’s brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is, proportionally speaking, 40 times greater than humans. Trained sniffer dogs can detect diseases such as malaria, cancer, and even viral infections.
Now, a team of German researchers at the University of Veterinary Medicine…
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