Dogs are now being used to sniff out infections in hospitals

 

 



Have you heard of GMO superbugs? GMO infections? Genetically modified cancer cells? Have you heard of drug resistant bacteria? It may be invisible to the naked eye, but now dogs are proving they can sniff out the sickness!!

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The olfactory sense of dogs is a thousand times stronger than that of human beings. This is why dogs are able to pick up the scents that the human nose might not be able to detect. Natural News reports that this unique strength of dogs can now be used to pinpoint the origin of infections in hospitals. It may sound bizarre but it is true that dogs can sniff out Clostridium difficile an antibiotic resistant strain of bacteria which is the causative agent of hospital infections.

 

According to a new study that is shortly going to be published in the British Medical Journal, dogs are capable of sniffing out C-diff from stool samples and the also from the air around patients in hospitals. The success rate of the dogs in detecting the origin of infections is also high. This new study fortifies an earlier concept of dogs being capable of detecting various types of cancer. It has been found that C-diff occurs most commonly in patients who have just completed a course of antibiotics in hospitals. The symptoms of the C-diff infection may be a mild diarrhea or even unbearable and life threatening inflammation in the bowel.

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In a drive to know whether or not dogs can be used to detect the C-diff infection, scientists in the Netherlands trained a dog named Cliff for two months. After the completion of the training, Cliff was 100 percent successful in identifying the infected samples out of 100 samples under controlled environment. When taken to a hospital to check the feasibility of the experiment under normal conditions, Cliff had an 83 percent success rate. Experts believe that this early detection of the infection will help a lot to contain the disease and take proper measures to stop it from becoming an epidemic, reports Natural News.