{"id":119524,"date":"2021-02-13T14:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T22:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/humanitys-best-friend-how-dogs-could-be-our-next-allies-in-the-fight-against-covid-19"},"modified":"2021-02-13T14:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T22:22:18","slug":"humanitys-best-friend-how-dogs-could-be-our-next-allies-in-the-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/humanitys-best-friend-how-dogs-could-be-our-next-allies-in-the-fight-against-covid-19","title":{"rendered":"Humanity\u2019s Best Friend: How Dogs Could Be Our Next Allies in the Fight Against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/humanitys-best-friend-how-dogs-could-be-our-next-allies-in-the-fight-against-covid-192.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dogs\u2019 Highly Evolved Noses Can Rapidly Detect the SARS-CoV-2 Virus For some 15000 years, dogs have been our hunting partners, workmates, helpers and companions. Could they also be our next allies in the fight against COVID-19? According to UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus Tommy Dickey and his collaborator, BioScent researcher Heather Junqueira, they can. And with a review paper published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine they have added to a small but growing consensus that trained medical scent dogs can effectively be used for screening individuals who may be infected with the COVID-19 virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs\u2019 Highly Evolved Noses Can Rapidly Detect the SARS-CoV-2 Virus For some 15000 years, dogs have been our hunting partners, workmates, helpers and companions. Could they also be our next allies in the fight against COVID-19? According to UC Santa Barbara professor emeritus Tommy Dickey and his collaborator, BioScent researcher Heather Junqueira, they can. And [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":575,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/575"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}