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If you have symptoms and are going to take a test, please consider donating your body odour to medical research to help dogs detect COVID

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Whydoyouthinkthatthen · 06/10/2020 08:44

Deatils are in the link, but basically the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine want volunteers to wear a T shirt and a mask for a few hours if they are going to take a COVID test due to symptoms, and then send the samples in to help dogs learn to distinguish the smell.

www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres-projects-groups/using-dogs-to-detect-covid-19?fbclid=IwAR0zM9yohNDhrJLguwPP21rZJz8Zjm0fh9JhM-ZIMu571y8ZniHGQ6VAR_0#volunteer-for-the-study

If you search 'James Logan' on facebook there are also links on there you can read and share.

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slidingdrawers · 06/10/2020 12:27

Thanks for sharing this.

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Plump82 · 06/10/2020 18:34

Thanks for sharing. Isn't amazing what dogs can do.

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Flower0503 · 06/10/2020 19:35

Sounds really interesting. Bump to try and get more people to read about this study

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