Category: COVID Sniffing Dogs

Dogs Can Be Trained to Sniff out COVID-19

With up to 300 million scent receptors, dogs are among the best smell detectors in the animal world. The human nose, by comparison, contains only around 6 million scent receptors. Dog brains also devote 40% more brain space than humans to analyzing odors. That’s why people train dogs to search for diverse targets via smell,…


Dogs Trained to Detect COVID 19 in Vancouver Health Care Facilities

VANCOUVER—Researchers in Vancouver are working to unleash a new weapon they hope will defeat the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19. The canine scent detection program at Vancouver Coastal Health is expanding to including dogs trained to sniff out COVID-19. The program, formed five years ago to detect and reduce cases of the easily…