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These dogs are trained to sniff out the coronavirus. Most have a 100% success rate

  • Written by Susan Hazel, Senior Lecturer, School of Animal and Veterinary Science, University of Adelaide
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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.

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