Posted on 07/27/2020 9:35:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hanover have found that trained sniffer dogs could be used to detect COVID-19 in human samples with a relatively high rate of accuracy, a study published on Thursday revealed.
Eight sniffer dogs from the German Bundeswehr were trained for only a weekto distinguish between the mucus and saliva of patients infected with coronavirus and non-infected individuals.
The dogs were then presented with positive and negative samples on a random basis by a machine.
The animals were able to positively detect SARS-CoV-2 infected secretions with an 83% success rate, and control secretions at a rate of 96%. The overall detection rate, combining both, was 94%.
In its conclusion based on more than 1,000 sniffed samples, published in the BMC Infectious Diseases journal, the team said dogs could play a role in detecting infected individuals. …
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Aren’t the cases in which cats and dogs have become infected? If so, doesn’t sound like a great approach.
I’ve read a story of too about dogs being used to detect cancer.
If you put it on a child. Look around and you see that nose coming and sniffing.
Another way to violate 4th amendment, or force quarantine.
That’s a great point. If there’s enough virus for a dog to smell it, is there enough to infect him?
With that said, the canine olfactory ability is nothing short of amazing.
“My dog has no nose!’’”
“How does he smell?’’
“Awful!’’.
I have to get some of those goggles for my GSD.
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