Just Give Me Positive Good News
  • Home
  • Good News
  • Home
  • Good News

JUST POSITIVE GOOD NEWS ABOUT COVID-19

There is so much negativity in the news about COVID-19, we want to give you all the positive good news that is happening with research, clinical trials, improvements and anything that we can be positive about that you may not have seen.

IF YOU JUST WANT FEEL GOOD, INSPIRING STORIES AND VIDEOS THEN LOOK AT OUR NEW PAGE HERE

Dogs Could Soon Become Valuable Allies In The Fight Against COVID-19

7/9/2020

 
Picture
One of the biggest challenges to battling the rapid spread of COVID-19 is identifying and isolating people who are infected before the symptoms, which usually take between 3 to 13 days, surface. Now, frontline workers may get some help from canines who can "sniff out" the disease even when the patient is asymptomatic, meaning he or she never shows any of the traits associated with COVID-19.

Bio-detection dogs are not a new idea. In the past, canines have been successfully trained to detect several deadly diseases long before the patients displayed any symptoms. These include identifying those with stomach cancer by smelling their urine samples in Japan, and those afflicted with malaria from their foot odor in the Gambia.

Dogs are the natural animal of choice due to their extremely sensitive noses, which are equipped with 300 million scent sensors. In comparison, humans only have 6 million scent sensors! Pooches also have a second smell receptor that we do not possess. Located at the bottom of their nasal passage, the vomeronasal, or Jacobson's organ, is powerful enough to smell generally undetectable odors. "We could detect a spoonful of sugar in a cup of tea, but a dog could detect a spoonful of sugar in two Olympic-sized swimming pools," Professor James Logan, head of the department of disease control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, told The Guardian. "It's that level."

"If you've got a plane with 500 people coming off, 10% may be asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic," says Guest. "The dog can quickly say, 'Bang, bang, bang. You, you, you.' It's a 0.5-second sniff. The dog won't make the final decision. The person will have a test. But at the moment, there's no other way of rapidly screening people like that – especially asymptomatics."

The scientists have now embarked on the next phase of the trial, which entails exposing the trained dogs to new human samples — some with traces of coronavirus and others without. If the Labradors can detect the infected samples accurately, they will be put to work in busy public areas to help identify people with COVID-19.

https://www.dogonews.com/2020/7/7/dogs-could-soon-become-valuable-allies-in-the-fight-against-covid-19

HELP US SPREAD GOOD NEWS!

I run this site in my spare time and thoroughly enjoy giving you all positive news!  If you've enjoyed the site we'd love for you to help me share the good news far and wide, share us on Reddit, your Facebook or your Twitter and spread a little positivity around.

Comments are closed.

    Who Am I ?

    Just someone trying to highlight the positive news amongst a sea of negativity.


    Archives

    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020

    Categories

    All
    Australia
    Austria
    Brazil
    Canada
    China
    Clinical Trials
    Companies
    Denmark
    Education
    France
    Germany
    Greece
    India
    Ireland
    Italy
    Lockdown
    Netherlands
    New Zealand
    Portugal
    PPE
    Reopen
    South Korea
    Spain
    Statistics
    Summary
    Switzerland
    Testing
    Treatment
    Turkey
    UK
    USA
    Vaccine
    Ventilators

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly