Dogs can identify asymptomatic COVID patients with high accuracy
Kathmandu. February 4. Hanover’s University of Veterinary Medicine in Germany has trained two dogs who can sniff out Covid-19 patients with 94% accuracy.
The two dogs, a 3-year-old Belgian shepherd ”Filou” and a 1-year-old cocker Spaniel “Joe” are trained to sniff out the “coronavirus odour” that is released from the infected cells of the patients.
Esther Schalke, a veterinarian at the national armed forces school for service dogs said the sniffer dogs were trained using saliva samples.
The head of the clinic department, Holger Volk said that the dogs could detect 94 per cent of the infected samples among 1,000 plus samples. The dogs can detect symptomatic and asymptomatic COVID-positive patients with high accuracy.
The state premier of Lower Saxony, Stephan Weil said that the performance of dogs is very impressive and the dogs can work in the real world after some more tests.
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