In a new study, dogs accurately identified 97 percent of positive Covid cases after smelling human sweat samples.
Highlights
- French researchers say dogs can be trained to sniff out Covid.
- The dogs accurately identified 97 percent of positive cases after sniffing human sweat samples.
- The researchers found the dogs were especially good at detecting asymptomatic infections, with a sensitivity nearing 100 percent.
- The study suggests that dogs might be useful for detecting Covid in airports, nursing homes, schools or sporting events.
- But experts say it’s difficult to train dogs to detect Covid for real-life in the real world, especially in schools and hospitals, because of the training process of dogs and technical reasons for training is highly technical and technical, Dr.
- Cynthia Otto of the Penn Vet Working Dog Center said.