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    Media Mentions

    What does the COVID-19 summer surge mean for your cats and dogs?

    Dr. Shelley Rankin spoke with Science about the potential for pets to transmit COVID-19 to humans.

    Rewilding Immunology

    Broadening immunology research to integrate comparative approaches across species and environments can amplify the potential of immunology to improve the lives of humans and other animals.

    How Does a Pandemic Affect Our Relationship with Food? A New Penn Survey Seeks Insights

    Dr. Zhengxia Dou’s newly launched internet survey seeks to explore answers about how food’s multifaceted role in our lives has changed amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Regenerative Therapies: Helping Horses Self-Heal

    Dr. Kyla Ortved discusses three regenerative modalities commonly used in equine medicine, when veterinarians and horse owners might consider each, and what’s to come.

    Cervical Epidural and Subarachnoid Catheter Placement in Standing Adult Horses

    Placement of an indwelling CES or SAS catheter appears to be safe, technically simple, and well tolerated in standing sedated normal horses.

    Dogs are being trained to sniff out coronavirus cases

    As some states move to reopen after weeks of shutdowns, infectious disease experts say the prevention of future coronavirus outbreaks will require scaling up testing and identifying asymptomatic carriers.

    Can dogs be trained to sniff out COVID-19 in patients?

    University of Pennsylvania veterinary school tests coronavirus patient samples.

    UPenn researchers hopeful dogs can sniff out coronavirus

    Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Veterinary Medicine are hoping a new study will help sniff out the disease.

    Scent-detection dogs at Penn could help sniff out a breakthrough in COVID-19 testing

    Could dogs’ keen sense of smell help screen humans for the coronavirus?

    The new normal: COVID-19 Sniffing Dogs

    What about using dogs to sniff out COVID-19 in humans?

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