Man’s best friend may help in the fight against the Cornavirus with a recent project launched at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine which  is hoping to train dogs to sniff out humans to determined whether or not you have been infected. Dogs with their super sense of smell and effective training could possibly detect the virus in people who asymptomatic or catch the virus in someone early on before they show symptoms. The hope is this could be used to screen a lot more faster and at a greater rate of detection. Check out this video from Mashiable for more.

Professor James Logan who is working on the plan, stated that when fully trained the dogs have had success in prior screenings for Malaria and could potentially screen 250 people per hour. He also noted the welfare of the dogs is being deeply addressed to prevent them from being armed or spreading the virus themselves.

“We conclude that there is a very high evidence that the armpits sweat odour of COVID-19+ persons is different, and that dogs can detect a person infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus” says a recent medical study published on June 5th by biorixv.org.