And we love just seeing the dogs do what they were born to do, you know, to I thought about this use their nose to locate items.” In addition to the dogs, researchers are asking for human volunteers in Hawaii. The study requires hundreds of positive and negative samples of sweat for the dogs to detect the scent of COVID. The Queen’s Health System Chief Physician Executive Dr. Whitney Limm said the virus is not transmitted through sweat, ideally, they want people who recently tested positive for the virus to contact them . Limm said, “What we’ll do is we’ll send a bag with a t-shirt, mask, socks, and a wristband. And we’ll have them wear, wear them for about 12 hours, and then send the samples back to us.”   A dog’s sense of smell is 100,000 times stronger than humans, and if they can smell certain types of cancers, researchers believe they can also smell the virus. The study may take two to three months to be completed. The training requires dogs that do not get tired of searching or repeating the trials hundreds of times. One of the dogs participating is a one-and-a-half-year-old Labrador Retriever named Tess, she was an assistance dog in pediatrics at Queen’s.

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