Meet the elite sniffer dogs trained to hunt Covid by smelling patients’ SOCKS

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Meet the elite sniffer dogs trained to hunt Covid ‘super-spreaders’ by smelling patients’ socks

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Rescue pup Asher will form part of a crack team of six detection pooches who will be the first to sniff out the deadly disease.Asher, the trainee coronavirus detection dog, with Dr Claire GuestThe pooches are being put through their paces with samples of facemasks and socks worn by Covid-19 patients

“At the moment, we’ve got controls , but what we really need now is people who have actually got the virus to wear the socks and the masks in order that the dogs can be trained," Claire tells The Sun.From birth, dogs are given intensive training covering basic puppy training, how to properly find and indicate a scent, and finally they finesse their skills over six weeks by learning to recognise an illness’s particular odour.

Not-for-profit Medical Detection Dogs is working with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Durham University on the trial, which could lead toThe charity and the London School worked together two years ago to train dogs to recognise the smell of malaria from socks which had been worn by the patients in Gambia.

“That’s why we need to get cracking quickly – we need to get these dogs trained and ready," Claire says.The dogs are being trained under careful conditions to prevent them being at risk of catching the virus“Because to start with there won’t be many dogs, we’ll be deploying them where they will be making the most difference.

“We’ve already started recruiting so we’ve already got some samples," says Prof James Logan, lead researcher on the study and Head of the Department of Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

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A crack team? So they are smelling underpants too?

Sorry i thought it said COCKS

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I hope he/she is paid well urghhh poor thing!

The jokes on you I don't wear socks.

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