The typical list of doggie demands won’t cut it anymore: If a mutt intends to impress, she needs to nose out patients harboring deadly parasites in their blood. Today, at the 2018 American Society of ...

A small pilot study has shown that dogs can accurately identify socks worn overnight by children infected with malaria parasites — even when the children had cases so mild that they were not feverish.

Dogs could someday be a powerful tool in diagnosing malaria, a new study shows. The animals were trained to identify whether someone was infected with malaria simply by sniffing their socks, according ...

Freya, a Springer Spaniel, who has been trained to detect malaria parasites in sock samples taken from children in The Gambia. Freya did not participate in the initial study but was trained afterwards ...

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Some very good boys are training to save lives by doing what they do best: sniffing socks. It sounds weird, but it could be a medical breakthrough. After four months of training, dogs were presented ...

Dogs could be trained to sniff out malaria in people according to new research aimed at preventing the spread of the deadly disease. Researchers found that dogs could scent malaria in samples of socks ...

It is already known that dogs with their sharp noses can sniff out a host of human diseases including cancers. A new study has now shown that dogs could possibly detect and diagnose a person suffering ...

Several years ago, British entomologist Steve Lindsay landed at an American airport and was immediately struck by all the furry creatures walking around the baggage claim area. "I was astounded to see ...