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14:52
Sunday April 26, 2020
Lamia Yousry wrote:
A team of researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) announced, late last month, an interesting new initiative on a new method to detect the novel Corona virus “Covid 19”, dependent on dogs.
Dogs can inhale odors with great skill, and if the new Corona virus has a different odor, dogs will be trained in this odor so they can examine patients.
In previous medical experiments, researchers found that dogs can detect lung cancer and other infectious diseases, especially malaria, according to the “medicalnewstoday” website.
Professor James Logan, head of the LSHTM Department of Disease Control said: “Medical research has shown that dogs can detect the odor of malaria from infected people, with high accuracy, according to World Organization for health”.
Investigators are currently trying to train medical examination dogs to examine people suspected of having COVID-19, smelling the patient.
Professor James Logan added that respiratory disease changes the body odor of the infected person, but it is not yet clear whether or not the Corona virus has a specific odor.
The researchers suggest that specially trained medical examination dogs can complement the long-term effort to detect a COVID-19 epidemic, with the ability to smell 250 people per hour, providing a quick, non-surgical detection method.
The researchers explain that dog training will require them to smell odor samples from people with COVID-19 and teach them to distinguish odors associated with the disease.
Dogs can also tell how a person’s health condition changes, as they can detect small changes in skin temperature. Therefore, dogs can know who has a fever right away.
If the experiment is successful, the researchers believe that medical examination dogs can detect respiratory diseases after just 6 weeks of training.
The scientists pointed out that dogs can also be used to detect travelers, and not just patients within hospitals, helping to prevent the disease from coming back.
