LUMEN Spring 2022 - Flipbook - Page 9
SPECIAL FEATURE
Sniffing out
the pandemic
Meet our labs in lab coats
STORY BY EMMA DWYER
D
ogs can sit, stay and roll over, but can
our best friends fight Coronavirus?
According to Dr Anne-Lise Chaber
and her team, the answer is a
resounding “yes!”
Anne-Lise (Senior Lecturer, researcher and
dog lover) is leading the Australian arm of an
international collaboration, training dogs to
detect positive COVID-19 cases.
With a decade of field experience as an
epidemiologist, Anne-Lise knows that a fast and
reliable screening tool is essential to managing
a pandemic.
And dogs, with their keen sense of smell and
documented ability to detect disease in humans,
could be just the tool we need.
Presently, Australia’s health system has two
COVID screening devices at its disposal, neither
of which are wholly fit for purpose.
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