Dogs being trained to sniff for COVID

Published May 17, 2022 11:08 AM

(KYMA, KECY) - "A dog is man's best friend." It's a very old saying, but canines seem to keep on finding new ways of proving it.

You already know they can sniff out bombs, drugs, and trapped earthquake survivors, but a new study suggests they can also sniff out COVID-19.

Using skin swab samples, researchers trained four dogs to detect COVID-19 infections caused by the original strain of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The pooches correctly identified 92% of positive samples and 91% of negative samples.

Then they moved onto sniffing hundreds of airport passengers.

They correctly identified 98.7% of negative samples.

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April Hettinger

April was born and raised in San Diego where she loved the beach town and her two dogs, Lexi and Malibu. She decided to trade the beach for the snow and advanced her education at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

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