According to the researchers, dogs can be trained to detect malaria
According to the researchers, dogs can be trained to detect malaria
Is there something that man's best friend can not do?
New research shows that dogs can be trained to detect the malaria parasite thanks to their sophisticated sense of smell.
According to the World Health Organization, it was estimated that 216 million cases and 445,000 deaths. of malaria around the world in 2016. Malaria is a deadly disease caused by parasites transmitted to people through the bites of infected women Anopheles mosquitoes
The scientists used nylon socks to collect odor samples from the feet of apparently healthy children aged five to 14 in The Gambia, a small West African country. The researchers used a finger prick test to see if the children had the malaria parasite known as Plasmodium falciparum in his blood.
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"It is worrisome that our progress in malaria control has stalled in recent years, so we desperately need new innovative tools to help in the fight against malaria," James Logan, Director of the Department of Disease Control of the School of Hygiene and Tropical of London. Medicine (LSHTM), he said in a statement.
In fact, researchers hope that this can lead to a non-invasive way to detect malaria at airports and other ports of entry, where dogs are already used to detect narcotics, thus preventing the spread of the disease.
The sock samples were sent to the Medical Detection Dogs charity in the United Kingdom, where the dogs were trained to detect the difference in smell between infected and uninfected children.
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In total, 175 samples of socks were analyzed, including those of the 30 children with positive malaria identified by the study and 145 of uninfected children.
Dogs have at least 220 million olfactory receptors, compared to 5 million for the typical human.
Although the research is in its early stages, scientists are still hopeful of the possibility of applying the results.
"Our results show that sniffer dogs can be a serious way to diagnose people who do not show any symptoms, but who are still infectious, faster and easier," Logan said.
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