The scent of sickness: 5 questions answered about using dogs – and mice and ferrets – to detect disease
- Written by Glen J. Golden, Research Scientist/Scholar I, Colorado State University
Moose, a mixed-breed dog from the Nebraska Humane Society, trains in odor-detection work. Bill Cotton/CSU, CC BY-NDEditor’s note: As COVID-19 continues to spread worldwide, scientists are analyzing new ways to track it. One promising approach is training dogs to detect people who are infected by smelling samples of human urine or sweat....