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New UK study indicates trained dogs could sniff out COVID-19 infections
People who are infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 have a distinct odour that can be detected by trained dogs with a high degree of accuracy, according to new research in the UK.
In what has been described as the most complete study of its kind to date, combining dog trial, odour analysis and modelling, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) led collaborative research with the charity Medical Detection Dogs and Durham University to find that specially trained dogs can rapidly and non-invasively detect the disease with up to 94.3 per cent sensitivity and up to 92 per cent specificity.
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Medieval doctors would slosh a patient’s urine in a flask, rating it on colour charts “yellow as of reduced lemon” or perhaps “bluish-grey, like camel skin.” Diagnosis could also be made by smelling, and even tasting, a nice fresh pee sample.
Today there are machines and even apps to spare humans from doing this. That said, we still have a lot to learn from nature.
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That’s why, in a lab in the U.K., a four-year-old wire-haired Vizsla named Midas and a seven-year-old labrador called Florin are being trained to sniff for the most aggressive form of prostate cancer. They work for Medical Detection Dogs, a charity that trains Medical Alert and Bio Detection dogs. Those are the same smart canines you see wearing a “Please Don’t Pet Me – I’m Working” doggie vest.
Study Training Dogs To Detect Prostate Cancer Gets One Paw Closer To A Robotic Nose To Diagnose The Disease, Including Most Lethal Form
A study by Medical Detection Dogs, the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Johns Hopkins University combined three current methods of diagnosing the disease for the first time to detect prostate cancer early
Larger-scale studies planned to develop a machine olfaction diagnostic tool - a robotic nose - that may ultimately be a smartphone app of the future; MIT developing prototype
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MILTON KEYNES, England and LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ New research from a multi-national, cross-disciplinary team of scientists from Medical Detection Dogs (MDD) in the UK, the Prostate Cancer Foundation (PCF), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Johns Hopkins University – and a friendly pair of specially trained cancer-sniffing dogs at MDD – has