Dogs can smell malaria in humans?

Dogs may be able to sniff out malaria through their acute sense of smell, thereby saving thousands of lives through quick and noninvasive detection, scientists have claimed.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a grant to commission research into the possibility to scientists at Durham University, Medical Detection Dogs and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

It is hoped the animals may be able to detect odours associated with the condition and which are too subtle to be identified by human smell.

Previous research has suggested dogs can be highly accurate in detection cancer in humans.