The Police in Chile are training dogs to detect people that may be infected with the coronavirus by sniffing their sweat. The virus has no smell but, rather, the infection generates metabolic changes, and this leads to the release of a particular type of sweat with a detectable odour which is what the dog would detect.
Chile Police Train Dogs To Sniff Coronavirus Infected Humans
Dogs to sniff Coronavirus
The dogs being trained for the purpose are three golden retrievers and a labrador. They are between the ages of four and five. These dogs have already been of much help. Previously they have been used to sniff out illicit drugs, explosives and lost people, Chilean police said in a statement.
The training programme is a joint effort by Chile's national police, the Carabineros, and specialists at the Universidad Catolica de Chile.
This ingenious idea follows in the footsteps of identical efforts taking p...