With coronavirus running amok and spreading like wildfire, it’s no wonder that society is on the verge of a mental breakdown. But, amidst all this chaos there are people doing their darndest to find even a hint of a solution to help.
Some of these level-headed people hail from France, Chile, and the UK. A particular individual, Dr. Brian Hare, author of “Survival of the Friendliest” and professor of many complicated sciences has hope, along with police and other scientists, that sniffer dogs (A.K.A bio-detector dogs) may be able to one day sniff out infected COVID-19 persons in crowds.
This has not yet been proven but is entirely possible since our fluffy heroes have sniffer-organs 30% larger than ours. Even though there are other animals in the world with better senses of smell they are not able to train and communicate effectively with us poor humans (score one for the unshakeable bond between man and man’s best friend). Training these remarkable puppers would involve rubbing fabric with samples of coronavirus and training them to detect, differentiate, and associate (phew! That’s a lot of work) the scent from other scents.
Once the fabric smeared with the contaminated COVID-19 sample is found, the clever hounds will alert their trained handlers by sitting or barking, just like normal drug or cancer sniffing fluffers. But scarily, there are seven (yes, seven, 7, VII) strains of coronavirus which makes training much harder and difficult but I’m sure these amazing people and their extraordinary dogs will find a way to success.
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