Medical detection dogs able to sniff 750 people an hour could help identify coronavirus cases, researchers say

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• Scientists in the UK believe that medical detection dogs could be able to help identify coronavirus cases in humans.
• Medical detection dogs are already being used to identify cancer, malaria, and Parkinson's.
• Academics at universities in London and Durham are exploring whether the dogs' abilities extend to detecting the virus.
• National health systems have limited capacity to carry out laboratory testing for the virus, so the hope is that
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Specially trained medical detection dogs could be the solution to the crisis in the lack of testing that many countries are facing during the coronavirus pandemic.

The dogs are capable of sniff testing 750 people an hour, according to the head of a non-profit which trains medical dogs.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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