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Perhaps we could teach dogs to smell it like we teach them to sniff drugs & explosives?
by benbristow 7y ago
Perhaps we could teach dogs to smell it like we teach them to sniff drugs & explosives?
- maxerickson 7y agoAt the moment it isn't terribly important, there's no known intervention that stops the onset of symptoms and there's no treatment that does anything other than address the symptoms. It's useful to identify it early, but for the most part the early symptoms are mild.
- moccachino 7y agoI suspect the only way to develop a method that stops the onset of symptoms is to detect the symptoms really early and figure out what to do from there. Otherwise there is no way to distinguish between someone who never got cancer and someone who did but had the progression stop before it became a problem.
- maxerickson 7y agoYes, that's why I said it would be useful.
- Tepix 7y agoWe already teach them to sniff USB sticks
- DoofusOfDeath 7y agoCan you elaborate? I can't tell if your post is a joke.
- Nasrudith 7y agoIt is real - ironically realer than drug sniffing dogs because they can't use memory sniffing dogs until after they have probable cause since there is no law against high density storage. So they aren't (mis)trained as four legged probable cause generators who respond more to police signaling than actual location.
- mschuster91 7y agoGerman police trained 5 dogs to detect electronics and media, and used them on a child molester's home as well as in jails to search for contraband: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/nrw-spuerhunde-polizei-daten-luegde-1.4641416 https://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/nrw-spuerhunde-polizei-...
- chrisdhal 7y agoVery true. As mentioned used a lot for pedophile cases. Case in point, Jared Fogel of Subway fame: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/porn-sniffing-dog-helped-bring-down-subway-star-jared-fogle-n415826 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/porn-sniffing-dog-helpe...