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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThese dogs are trained to sniff out the coronavirus
earthsky.org
Scientists have been working with professional trainers in South Australia, Victoria and New South Wales to train dogs to sniff out Covid-19. Most of the dogs have a 100% success rate.
https://earthsky.org/human-world/dogs-trained-to-smell-detect-coronavirus-covid19
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These dogs are trained to sniff out the coronavirus (Original Post)
lordsummerisle
Aug 2020
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. K&R!
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)2. Dogs are amazing!
MFGsunny
(2,356 posts)3. WOWZA and thanks for posting. n/t
intrepidity
(7,336 posts)4. Nice.
These detector dogs are trained using sweat samples from people infected with Covid-19. When introduced to a line of sweat samples, most dogs can detect a positive one from a line of negative ones with 100% accuracy.