Three dogs are being tested in a dog training center created by a cargo container in a Czech mountain village. The trainers said the dogs were used to detect Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) with an accuracy of 95 percent.
The three dogs “Renda” (Renda), “Cap” (Cap) and “Laky” (Laky) sniffed six containers, each containing a piece of fabric, some with the smell of COVID-19 patients, or the smell of those who tested negative, or simply fake samples.
Renda, a German hunting dog, sat down and wagged her tail in front of one of the samples, and Lenka Vlachova, who works as a trainer for the Prague Fire Department, exclaimed, “Good boy!”
The dog trainers spent their free Time conducting research and reported a 95 percent success rate in detecting COVID-19 in human scent samples.
Project leader Hotovy (Gustav Hotovy) told AFP: “The purpose of this research is to verify the ability of dogs to detect COVID-19 and to devise a method that can use trained dogs to fight the outbreak.”
Hottovy said, “This approach should work for other diseases as well, even for diseases that are more deadly than COVID-19.”
He said, “We should eventually be able to use a trained dog to detect large numbers of people in a very short period of time.”
Verahoa told AFP that the United States was the first to perform research confirming that dogs can detect tissue attacked by the virus about 10 years ago.
She said, “The virus can change human tissue and affect a person’s scent signature.”
The researchers used only a small ball of cotton rubbed against the patient’s skin to obtain a sample, and then had to make sure the sample was not contaminated with the virus to prevent the dog from becoming infected.
A Finnish research team used the same sampling method to screen dogs at Helsinki airport and reported that the team’s dogs were nearly 100 percent accurate in detecting the virus.
Katerina Jancarikova, a canine scientist, said the virus-infected tissue “is only a small part of the overall odor and is part of the puzzle for the dogs.
“It’s like looking for Willy,” she says. She was referring to the work of British illustrator Martin Handofrd. Martin Handofrd’s “Where’s Wally?” (Where’s Wally?) popular picture book series, readers must look carefully in the different themes of the pictures to find the main character hiding in a sea of people, dressed in red and white stripes Willy.
Yang Karikova also said that any dog, as long as they can be good cooperation, can be trained to detect diseases.
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