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By ELISE PHILLIPS MARGULIS
Credits: Millburn High School
May 13, 2021 at 2:24 AM
Sophie Araten, a 15-year-old Millburn High School sophomore, was chosen as one of the top 11 winners of The Learning Network s second annual STEM Writing Contest. She competed against 3,740 other entrants.
Araten s topic was using dogs to detect COVID-19. She began her essay with the fact that dogs are able to sniff out cancer, Parkinson s Disease and other ailments well before symptoms appear. She explained that canines can smell diseases because they have somewhere between 125 and 300 million scent glands, compared to our paltry five million.
Araten shared that researchers are training dogs to detect COVID-19 in human sweat samples, and this method of testing is much more economical and fast than medical tests. The results are 95% reliable. Impressively, canines have even discovered COVID-19 in asymptomatic carriers.