Published 13:27 IST, August 31st 2020
Cancer, coronavirus, and other diseases dogs can detect; details inside
Various studies done in France, Finland, and England found that dogs can detect diseases like coronavirus, cancer, and diabetes. Dogs are trained to do this.
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Dogs are kwn for ir highly developed sense to smell, because of this y are trained and are used in security service to find contraband material like drugs and explosive. y also have capability to detect odours that are imperceptible to humans, which indicate presence of certain diseases. Here are some of disease and health conditions, which dogs are being taught to detect.
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Coronavirus
world has been fighting with vel coronavirus and this health emergency has impacted world ecomy very bly, but scientist and several researchers are training dogs to detect coronavirus infected patients. In month of March, a university in Finland, University of Helsinki in its pilot study, trained dogs as a medical diagstic assistant and y were me capable to distinguish between urine of healthy person and urine of corona virus-infected patient.
In France, a scientific and research institute French École Vétérinaire de Maisons-Alfort is developing a method, which is reportedly being tested in city of Strasbourg, island of Corsica and at or locations outside France, has demonstrated encouraging preliminary results. In this experiment, dogs are trained to detect specific smell in perspiration of people infected by vel coronavirus.
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Diabetes
In 2019, a British study published in Plos One found that dogs can find hypoglycemic episodes in people suffering 1 diabetes in more than 80% cases. study furr shed light on phemena in which dogs can also be trained to opt a specific signalling behaviour, like nuzzling ir owner's legs when y have identified odour of hypoglycemia.
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Cancer
re are various cases reported, where it is found that dogs have alerted ir owners, who were suffering from cancer. In a very rare incident, which took place in 2015, a dog named Daisy, who h been trained to sniff out cancer, reportedly alerted her owner by repeatedly nuzzling her bosom. After sometime Daisy’s mistress was diagsed with breast cancer
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This surprising phemen is me possible by a particular odour caused by disease in urine and blood of affected humans. An American study published in 2019 tably showed that beagles trained to detect odour of lung cancer in blood samples could effectively identify disease in more than 96% of cases.
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13:27 IST, August 31st 2020