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lordsummerisle

(4,651 posts) Mon Aug 10, 2020, 03:47 PM Aug 2020

These 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 OP

K&R! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #1

Dogs are amazing! MoonRiver Aug 2020 #2

WOWZA and thanks for posting. n/t MFGsunny Aug 2020 #3

Nice. intrepidity Aug 2020 #4

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)

1. K&R!

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Mon Aug 10, 2020, 03:48 PM

Aug 2020

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)

2. Dogs are amazing!

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Mon Aug 10, 2020, 03:50 PM

Aug 2020

MFGsunny

(2,356 posts)

3. WOWZA and thanks for posting. n/t

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Mon Aug 10, 2020, 03:57 PM

Aug 2020

intrepidity

(7,307 posts)

4. Nice.

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Mon Aug 10, 2020, 05:19 PM

Aug 2020

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.

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