A trainer at a Czech dog training facility, Hottovy, is training dogs to sniff out infected people.
A Czech dog training facility has been training three dogs to sniff out infected people since August last year, with a 95% success rate.
A number of countries around the world now have similar programs, with the Finnish team claiming a near 100 percent success rate.
The Czech trainers placed clothing wiped with the skin of a diagnosed person, samples from uninfected people and fake samples in six containers for the dogs to identify. Project leader Gustav Hotovy said the method could be used to detect other diseases, even those more deadly than Newcastle pneumonia.
A team in Finland has already used the same method, using detection dogs in Helsinki airport to sniff passengers’ luggage for the presence of New Coronavirus, and then asking them to undergo nucleic acid testing after identification. Czech trainer Lenka Vlachova hopes to collaborate with Finnish or German or French teams to develop other similar projects.
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