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Dogs May Smell a Complete Stranger's Seizure Without Ever Being Trained, Study Finds
A new study suggests that even untrained dogs with no prior exposure to epilepsy and no experience with medical detection tasks may still sniff out the seizure of a complete stranger.
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A new study suggests that even untrained dogs with no prior exposure to epilepsy and no experience with medical detection tasks may still sniff out the seizure of a complete stranger. Researchers at the University of Milan collected sweat samples from a non-hospitalized 6-year-old female volunteer with epilepsy when she was and wasn't having a seizure.
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