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Study shows dogs can detect COVID-19 infections May 27 05:13 am JST May 27 | 06:55 am JST PARIS
Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published Monday, which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals.
Using their remarkable sense of smell which can pick up the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an olympic-sized swimming pool dogs have already shown that they can sniff out maladies such as cancer, malaria and epilepsy.
Several previous studies have shown proof-of-concept that dogs can detect SARS-CoV-2.
Dogs can be trained to detect more than 90% of COVID-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published by the London School of Tropical Medicine.
Researchers train dogs to sniff out Covid-19 positive people, could find use at airports India Today Web Desk
As the coronavirus pandemic worsens and cases rise in separate parts of the world owing to fresh waves, a new detector has come around sniffer dogs. A new study shows that sniffer dogs can be trained to identify people with the SARS-CoV2 virus by their odour.
Researchers at the London School of Tropical Medicine, who presented a new study, said that these dogs could soon be used at airports or mass gathering venues to pick up the corona odour of Covid-19-infected people. Working in teams of two, the Covid-trained dogs could screen a line of several hundred people coming off a plane within half an hour and detect with up to 94.3 per cent sensitivity those infected, Reuters reported.