Following thousands of hours of training, the dogs are officially certified to use their noses to sniff out unseen threats in a hospital: everything from bacterial and viral infections to cancer.
Brothers Arti and Anton, both English Springer Spaniels, have joined the Canines for Care program.
“They will be excellent scent detectors — using the power of their nose to make the invisible, visible,” says Teresa Zurberg, co-founder and program research and innovation lead. “When the people see the dogs coming in and searching, it creates a whole new level of excitement,” says Zurberg, noting the program was inspired by a similar initiative in the Netherlands.
“The dogs are able to tell us… where those sources of contamination are in the environment, and people are unable to do that,” says Zurberg, noting five of the seven dogs specialize in C. difficile detention and two of them are research dogs learning new pathogen scent detection. When they are out screening and a dog locates the disease, cleaning staff along with infection control staff are right there to remove the contamination.
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