The surgery was a remarkable triumph, freeing her from that monstrous ordeal. It is truly astonishing that she is now liberated from those burdensome orders.

Tπš‘πšŠt is tπš‘πšŽ s𝚎c𝚘n𝚍 w𝚎 πš‘πšŠv𝚎 πš‹πšŽπšŽn 𝚊nticiπš™πšŠtin𝚐 πšπš˜πš› tπš‘πšŽ πš›πšŽπšŠs𝚘n tπš‘πšŠt stπšŠπš›tin𝚐. W𝚎 𝚍isc𝚘vπšŽπš›πšŽπš Alm𝚊 tw𝚘 w𝚎𝚎ks in tπš‘πšŽ πš™πšŠst m𝚊kin𝚐 𝚊n 𝚊tt𝚎mπš™t t𝚘 𝚏l𝚎𝚎, scπšŠπš›πšŽπš 𝚘𝚏 𝚎vπšŽπš›πš’πš‹πš˜πšπš’, wπš‘πšŽπš›πšŽπšŠs cπšŠπš›πš›πš’in𝚐 𝚊 lπšŠπš›πšπšŽ t𝚞mπš˜πš› 𝚘n πš‘πšŽπš› l𝚎𝚐. Sinc𝚎 tπš‘πšŽn, wπšŽβ€™v𝚎 𝚐𝚘t πš‹πšŽπšŽn wπš˜πš›kin𝚐 t𝚘 𝚐𝚎t s𝚘 πšπšŠπš›, tπš‘πšŽ πš™l𝚊c𝚎 wπšŽβ€™πš›πšŽ πš™πšŽπš›πš™l𝚎x𝚎𝚍.

I will πš‹πšŽπšin 𝚍𝚘c𝚞m𝚎ntin𝚐 𝚊nnmπšŠβ€™s N𝚎w Li𝚏𝚎, 𝚊n𝚍 I will πš‹πšŽ 𝚍isπš™l𝚊𝚒in𝚐 𝚒𝚘𝚞 𝚎vπšŽπš›πš’ 𝚍𝚊𝚒 πš‘πš˜w sπš‘πšŽβ€™s 𝚍𝚘in𝚐.

Tπš‘is 𝚍𝚘𝚐 πš‘πšŠs 𝚎vπšŽπš›πš’πš‹πš˜πšπš’β€™s c𝚘nsiπšπšŽπš›πšŠti𝚘n 𝚊s 𝚊 πš›πšŽs𝚞lt 𝚘𝚏 sπš‘πšŽ is πšπš˜πš›πšπšŽπš˜πšžs, vπšŠπš›i𝚎t𝚒, 𝚊n𝚍 sm𝚘𝚘tπš‘, πš‘πš˜w𝚎vπšŽπš› m𝚘st si𝚐ni𝚏ic𝚊ntl𝚒 𝚊s 𝚊 πš›πšŽs𝚞lt 𝚘𝚏 sπš‘πšŽ is 𝚊n 𝚞nπš‹πšŽli𝚎vπšŠπš‹l𝚎 sπšžπš›vivπš˜πš›.

Tπš‘πšŠnk 𝚒𝚘u 𝚊 l𝚘t t𝚘 πš’πš˜πšžπš› πš‘πšŽlπš™; witπš‘in tπš‘πšŽ 𝚍𝚊𝚒s t𝚘 πš›πšŽtπšžπš›n, wπšŽβ€™ll πš‹πšŽ 𝚊w𝚊itin𝚐 lπšŠπš‹ 𝚘𝚞tc𝚘m𝚎s t𝚘 𝚏in𝚍 𝚘𝚞t wπš‘πšŠt sπš˜πš›t 𝚘𝚏 t𝚞mπš˜πš› sπš‘πšŽ πš‘πšŠs. Sπš‘πšŽ 𝚍𝚎sπšŽπš›v𝚎s tπš‘is 𝚊n𝚍 𝚊 l𝚘t 𝚎xtπš›πšŠ.

cπš‘πšŽm𝚘tπš‘πšŽπš›πšŠπš™πš’ will stπšŠπš›t, s𝚘 𝚊ll tπš‘πšŽ tπš‘in𝚐s is sw𝚎𝚎t, wπš‘πšŠt 𝚊n incπš›πšŽπšiπš‹l𝚎 w𝚘nπšπšŽπš›πšπšžl

B𝚎𝚊𝚞ti𝚏𝚞l stπš˜πš›πš’ I 𝚊𝚍miπš›πšŽ 𝚒𝚘𝚞 𝚊 l𝚘t πšπš˜πš›.

Can dogs really detect Covid-19 infections faster and more accurately than a lateral flow test?

Results indicated that not only can dogs detect Covid faster, but they can also do so in a non-intrusive manner – so no need to swab your throat or nose

Dogs can detect Covid-19 faster and more accurately than a PCR test, a new study shows.

Researchers looked at the ability of canines to recognise the virus and its variants, even when they are obscured by other viruses, like those from common colds and flu.

More than 400 scientists from over 30 countries contributed to the study as well as 147 scent dogs, according to the findings published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine.

After analysing many studies covering both field and clinical experiments, Professor Dickey and Junqueira found that dogs who are trained to sniff out scents are β€œas effective and often more effective” than antigen tests.

A total of 53 dogs were trained to sniff out Covid scents, while 37 were not and scientists found that the dogs that were not trained were in some cases β€œslightly superior” to those that were pre-trained.

β€œThe previously untrained dogs have the advantage that they are not as prone to indicating on scents other than the Covid–19 associated scent,” the paper said.

The results indicated that not only can dogs detect Covid faster, but they can also do so in a non-intrusive manner. This means you won’t need to put a swab in your throat or nose.

How can dogs detect the virus?

This essentially comes down to the dog’s highly evolved nose with its ability to sense out smells quicker.

Dogs possess up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, compared to about six million in humans. And the part of a dog’s brain that is devoted to analysing smells is about β€œ40 times greater” than humans. Canines also have β€˜neophilia’, which means they are attracted to new and interesting odours

And so, with all these enhancements, dogs can detect very low concentrations of odours associated with Covid infections.

β€œThey can detect the equivalent of one drop of an odorous substance in 10.5 Olympic-sized swimming pools,” Professor Dickey said. β€œFor perspective, this is about three orders of magnitude better than with scientific instrumentation.”

Scientists also found that in some cases, the animals were also able to detect the virus in pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, β€œwhose viral load was too low for conventional tests to work.”

Professor Dickey has said that dogs can also differentiate Covid and its different variants in the presence of other respiratory viruses. This included the common cold or flu.

β€œThey’re much more effective. In fact, one of the authors that we quote in the paper commented that the RT-PCR test is not the gold standard anymore. It’s the dog. And they’re so quick,” he added. β€œThey can give you the yes or no within seconds if they’re directly smelling you.”

How was the study conducted to see if dogs can really detect Covid-19?

In some studies, the dogs gave a person a quick sniff, sitting down to see if the person has Covid. In another study, the dog was given a sweat sample to smell for a few minutes.

The press release has said that scent dogs, such as beagles, basset hounds and coonhounds are the ideal candidates for sniffing out the virus, given their β€œnatural tendencies to rely on odours to relate to the world.”

But the studies which the researchers analysed showed a variety of dogs were up for the challenge and were able to sniff out the Covid odour. With a few weeks of training, puppies, older dogs, purebred and mixed breeds, both male and female were able to sniff such odours out and β€œall performed admirably,” the Eureka Alert press release said.

Although there has been success with dogs detecting such viruses, researchers believe there are still many challenges with using dogs for medical diagnoses.

β€œThere’s quite a bit of research, but it’s still considered by many as a kind of a curiosity,” said Professor Dickey.

In conclusion, Professor Dickey and Junqueira said after reviewing the studies, believe that scent dogs deserve β€œtheir place as a serious diagnostic methodology that could be particularly useful during future pandemics, potentially as part of rapid routine health screenings in public spaces.”

β€œPerhaps, most importantly, we argue that the impressive international quality and quantity of COVID scent dog research described in our paper for the first time, demonstrates that medical scent dogs are finally ready for a host of mainstream medical applications,” they added.

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