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Coronavirus Sniffer Dogs

Apparently these Dogs can be trained in several weeks to sniff out the Virus.

Its suggested these Sniffer Dogs be employed at airports, where they can sniff 750 in coming passengers an hour.

Maybe they could be employed in other areas where detection could be just as important.

If they are accurate it sounds like a good and cost effective way to carry out tests.
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Nice idea marciniak, but is it any more than an idea?
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Originally Posted by d00d ->
Nice idea marciniak, but is it any more than an idea?



Here you go dOOdy.


https://www.medicaldetectiondogs.org...inst-covid-19/
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07-05-2020, 10:48 PM
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Hi

Dogs are amazing, they can do so many things humans cannot.
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07-05-2020, 10:54 PM
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Can dogs detect the smell of cancer?

https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk...ell-of-cancer/
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07-05-2020, 11:16 PM
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Re: Coronavirus Sniffer Dogs

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Can dogs detect the smell of cancer?

https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk...ell-of-cancer/


I thought they had been training cancer detecting dogs quite a while now, Alice?

I think all these detection dogs are absolutely brilliant animals.
I was even reading a while back about dogs being taken out on lakes in small rowing boats to detect bodies deep under water. How on earth can they smell that? They don't dive in, they can smell from the boat!

These animals deserve our utmost respect, and so do the trainers who work with them.

There is a magazine about all their work:


https://www.medicaldetectiondogs.org.uk/sniff-magazine/
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Re: Coronavirus Sniffer Dogs

Thanks for the link Mups


Originally Posted by marciniak ->

Its suggested these Sniffer Dogs be employed at airports, where they can sniff 750 in coming passengers an hour.
but surely these passengers are best sniffed before they board the plane.
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Beautiful clever animals arnt they .

I remember reading about a lady who's dog kept pawing at her left breast and sniffing , it went on for a long time the dog was persistent, I'm not sure how it came about but she went to the docs got tested and sure enough had cancer in the breast .

It was caught in time to prevent major surgery .
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09-05-2020, 01:27 PM
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Re: Coronavirus Sniffer Dogs

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Thanks for the link Mups




but surely these passengers are best sniffed before they board the plane.

You would have thought so, wouldn’t you.

Yet more monies are being spent at Heathrow…. Installing cameras to screen all ARRIVING passengers at Terminal Two, to check their temperatures.

I’m sure any such tests that aid the fight against Covid 19 should with common sense, at some point be carried out on departures too
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Thanks for providing the links, very interesting read.

I know Dogs are used to sniff out drugs, explosives and I have heard about the Cancers too.

But on first hearing about training these Dogs to sniff out the Coronavirus..... I thought it were feasible, thats all.

But having read the links, and more.... I can't believe the use of these dogs with their incredible ability is not a PRIORITY.

They could sniff test 750 people an hour, will next to no inconvenience.

A blood test carried out would surely take 2 to 5 minutes,
around 20 people an hour...plus the inconvenience.

The potential use of these Dogs is incredible, I'm thinking hospital entrance, shopping arcades, schools and so much more.
 
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