September 3, 2020
Volume 50 - No. 36
By Friedrich Gomez
One could say, with justification, that the fight against the dreaded COVID-19 world pandemic has, literally, gone to the dogs.
Scientists and researchers are training dogs to sniff-out and detect the presence of the coronavirus disease in humans, or as one source put it: “If you’ve ever wondered what a pandemic smells like, and dogs could talk, well, you might get that answer.”
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With the world crippled with neareconomic collapse, rising death tolls, and the global human psyche scarred from social isolation, once again Man’s Best Friend has come to the rescue, this time to help us fight the insidious and ubiquitous invisible villain, the Covid-19 pandemic. PLANET JOINS FORCES IN BOLD NEW EXPERIMENT TO FIGHT COVID-19. Leaving no stone unturned in our planet’s desperate fight against a most devastating enemy that is ravaging Earth
24/7, a revolutionary new international effort was launched just five months ago to train dogs to see if they could detect the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the dreaded COVID-19 disease, a crucial step since an efficacious vaccine for world inhabitants may still be years away. Since March of 2020, this new global project of training “biomedical dogs” to detect the mysterious virus is happening in such diverse regions as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Germany, Chile, the United
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Kingdom, Argentina, France, Australia, Finland, Brazil, Belgium, the United States, and even the U. S. Army, which is networking alongside a research program at the University of Pennsylvania’s National School of Veterinary Medicine. And even though there are many diverse nations involved in this project, they speak as one cohesive group as they continue to share data, and network together for a common cause.