Dogs Proving Once Again to Be Man’s Best Friend With Ability to Sniff Out Fatal Parasite

Dogs Are Being Trained To "Sniff Out" A Screwworm Parasite In Cattle

Mexico has started training rescue dogs to detect flesh-eating screwworm larvae in livestock wounds. The invasive “flesh-eating parasite” is an aggressively annoying fly, and could pose another risk to the United States’ meat industry. Senasica’s Canine Trainer Center, Ceacan, has recruited rescue dogs for a three-month intensive training program, teaching the canines how to sniff out and detect the New World screwworm larvae within the open wou…

Dogs Proving Once Again to Be Man’s Best Friend With Ability to Sniff Out Fatal Parasite

Dogs help detect a deadly parasite threatening cattle in the US and Mexico.