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Turkiye trains dogs to detect COVID-19

A dog’s sense of smell is up to 100,000 times more developed than ours. Your average canine can be trained to sniff out illegal substances or explosives, guide their sight-impaired owners safely through traffic and track down missing people. Now, researchers are putting man’s best friend to work on arguably the biggest challenge facing the world – COVID-19. Kubra Akkoc went to a dog training facility in Istanbul and has this report.

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