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Federal government sniffs out trainers who can teach dogs to screen for coronavirus
coronavirus.Those looking to apply for the position can do so online until next week.“In the case of SARS-CoV-2, it is assumed that the virus itself will not be the training aid as there is no current evidence to suggest that the virus will have a unique volatile organic compound (VOC) signature,” the job posting read. Dogs might be able to sniff out COVID-19, study suggests “Therefore, the expected focus will be the VOC signature directly or indirectly related to the host inflammatory response induced by SARS-CoV-2 infection.”Coronavirus-sniffing dogs have already been deployed in Finland, where four dogs of different breeds trained by Finland’s Smell Detection Association started working on Sept.