Study found that dog is able to detect malaria symptom earlier than medical teams
News24xx.com - This is revealed in a study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene in New Orleans, United States. The study found that dogs are able to sniff out the presence of malaria parasites through the socks of the sufferer who has no symptoms of malaria in general.
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"We found that dog smelling system could be one way to detect early cases of malaria, especially those that do not show any symptoms" said one study author, James Logan, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, AFP reported.
The researcher used 175 socks as the research sample. As many as 30 of them are the socks belonging to malaria-positive infected children in Gambia. The rest is owned by children who are not infected. As a result, dogs are able to identify 70 percent of socks samples belonging to children infected with malaria. In addition, dogs are also able to identify 90 percent of socks samples belonging to children not infected with malaria.
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This research is driven by the increasing number of cases of malaria globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) said there are 216 million malaria cases in 2016. That number increased by around 5 billion from the previous year. "It's worrying, our progress in controlling malaria has stopped in a few years. We need new innovations to fight malaria" Logan said.
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