The British Ministry of Health has announced that disease control experts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of Durham together with the Dog Scout Medical Association, are looking into whether dogs trained to sniff some cancers and malaria can be used as an "early non-surgical warning measure" to identify the emerging virus, according to When it came to the "Arab" site.
The experiment is to receive $ 600,000 in funding from the British government.
Six dogs, including "Labrador" and "Cocker Spaniel" types, began the basic training of the experiment, and at the initial stage, researchers plan to collect samples of odors from people who were infected with the virus and who were not infected with it.
The Ministry of Health said that the dogs will then undergo comprehensive training using samples, and will not be published unless the experiment is backed by strong scientific evidence.