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Dogs can recognise the scent of someone having an epileptic seizure

28 March 2019

Service dogs for people with epilepsy can tell when their owners are having a seizure, but we don’t know how. Now an experiment suggests they can smell seizures

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Dogs can recognise the scent of someone having an epileptic seizure

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