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Published March 12, 2021, 1:44 PM Their highly superior sense of smell has long been used to sniff out drugs, weapons and dead bodies. Now Latin America’s crime-fighting police dogs are being trained to detect COVID-19. In El Salvador, police are using artificial aromas similar to the sweat of a person infected with the coronavirus to train dogs. (AFP / MANILA BULLETIN) “It’s not so easy, because the COVID-19 strains seem to be changing a lot,” said Wilber Alarcon, a canine handler from the Central American nation’s anti-narcotics police. “But the ones that are known have been synthesized and pseudo-aromas have been extracted to train the dogs,” said Alarcon, who was in Mexico for a regional canine training exercise.

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