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Many long for a return to a post-pandemic ânormal,â which, for some, may entail concerts, travel, and large gatherings. But how to keep safe amid these potential public health risks?
One possibility, according to a new study, is dogs. A proof-of-concept investigation published today in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that specially trained detection dogs can sniff out COVID-19-positive samples with 96% accuracy.
âThis is not a simple thing weâre asking the dogs to do,â says Cynthia Otto, senior author on the work and director of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Working Dog Center. âDogs have to be specific about detecting the odor of the infection, but they also have to generalize across the background odors of different people: men and women, adults and children, people of different ethnicities and geographies.â
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The FINANCIAL Many long for a return to a post-pandemic “normal,” which, for some, may entail concerts, travel, and large gatherings. But how to keep safe amid these potential public health risks?
According to University of Pennsylvania, one possibility, according to a new study, is dogs. A proof-of-concept investigation published today in the journal PLOS ONE suggests that specially trained detection dogs can sniff out COVID-19-positive samples with 96% accuracy.
“This is not a simple thing we’re asking the dogs to do,” says Cynthia Otto, senior author on the work and director of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Working Dog Center. “Dogs have to be specific about detecting the odor of the infection, but they also have to generalize across the background odors of different people: men and women, adults and children, people of different ethnicities and geographies.”
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The company said it expects to begin two vaccine trials in humans by the end of 2021.
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Moderna s investor presentation on Wednesday showcased the Massachusetts-based biotech s efforts to develop vaccines against HIV and eight other infectious diseases.
The company s mRNA technology, which has built upon decades of research, will now contribute to the long frustrated effort to contain the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Dogs Can Sniff Out COVID-19 Cases
Dogs help us in a lot of ways. Now they may help us get back to normal after the pandemic by using their exceptional abilities to detect odors, to sniff out cases of the coronavirus. While some agencies like airports are already testing the idea, researchers have now done a scientific study that demonstrated that trained detection dogs could identify COVID-19-positive samples with 96 percent accuracy. The findings were reported in This is not a simple thing we re asking the dogs to do, noted senior study author Cynthia Otto, the director of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine Working Dog Center. Dogs have to be specific about detecting the odor of the infection, but they also have to generalize across the background odors of different people: men and women, adults and children, people of different ethnicities and geographies.
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