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UPenn researchers hopeful dogs can sniff out coronavirus

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PHILADELPHIA - As health officials and politicians continue to prioritize an increase in testing for the novel coronavirus, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine are hoping a new study will help sniff out the disease.

PennVet says scent detection dogs will attempt to tell the difference between lab samples from COVID-19 positive patients and COVID-19 negative patients.

According to the University, dogs have 300 million smell receptors which uniquely positions the animals to aid in disease detection.

By comparison, humans have only six million smell receptors. RELATED: CORONAVIRUS Over the course of three weeks, Penn says eight scent detection dogs will be trained using coronavirus positive saliva and

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