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.
Researchers train dogs to sniff out Covid-19 positive people, could find use at airports
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Dogs trained on smelly socks could be used at airports to pick up corona odour of Covid-infected people
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Dogs trained on smelly socks could be used at airports to pick up corona odour of Covid-infected peopleAFP
Last Updated: May 24, 2021, 08:28 AM IST
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These dogs could screen a line of several hundred people coming off a plane within half an hour.
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The researchers said the dogs were even able to sniff out asymptomatic or mild COVID-19 cases, as well as cases caused by a mutant variant that emerged in the UK late last year.