A Whiff of Disease: Using Dogs to Sniff Out Medical Conditions

Ever since the dog was first domesticated, thousands of years ago, our ancestors exploited its acute sense of smell for tracking and hunting.  More recently, we’ve enlisted them as crime-busters, by teaching them to locate drugs & explosives.  And now, man’s best friend can be trained to detect our diseases – like cancer, diabetes, epilepsy, malaria, even Covid-19 – earlier than conventional screening techniques, and often before we even know we’re ill… incredible but true!  In this talk, David McLellan (Torridge u3a) will be exploring dogs’ extraordinary sense of smell, and considering its medical diagnostic potential.

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