https://www.scmp.com/rss/506837/feed Anne-Lise Chaber is a One Health Lecturer at School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com What does a pandemic smell like? If dogs could talk, they might be able to tell us. We’re part of an international research team, led by Dominique Grandjean at France’s National Veterinary School of Alfort, that has been training detector dogs to sniff out traces of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) since March. These detector dogs are trained using sweat samples from people infected with Covid-19. When introduced to a line of sweat samples, most dogs can detect a positive one from a line of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3096147/sniffing-out-coronavirus-how-dogs-are-helping-fight-against-covid?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3096147/sniffing-out-coronavirus-how-dogs-are-helping-fight-against-covid?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Aug 2020 22:00:15 +0000