A new pilot study is examining whether dogs may accurately be able to sniff out the novel coronavirus. A pilot study from Penn Vet is looking at whether eight dogs may accurately be able to sniff out coronavirus. The potential impact of these dogs and their capacity to detect COVID-19 could be substantial.' Dogs have about 300 million smell receptors compared to about six million in humans, the Penn Vet team says. 'It's early days for COVID-19 odor detection,' Professor James Logan, the head of the LSHTM's department of disease control, said in a press release.

Source: Daily Mail April 30, 2020 17:14 UTC