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Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 infection with remarkable accuracy

Aussie Spirit by Aussie Spirit
August 1, 2020
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Dogs can be trained to detect Covid-19 infection with remarkable accuracy

MILTON KEYNES, ENGLAND - MARCH 27: "Freya" correctly detects a sample of malaria from a row of sample pots at the "Medical Detection Dogs" charity headquarters on March 27, 2020 in Milton Keynes, England. The charity is currently working with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to test whether the dogs can be re-trained in the next six weeks to provide a rapid, non-invasive diagnosis of the virus. Medical Detection Dogs has successfully trained it's dogs to detect cancer, Parkinson's and bacterial infections, through the sense of smell and is now looking for donations to help cover the costs of the intensive programme. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to many countries across the world, claiming over 20,000 lives and infecting hundreds of thousands more. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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As if their abilities were not good enough already, dogs proved amazingly successful in detecting Covid-19 with their super-sensitive sniffing.

Researchers led by Hannover University of Veterinary Medicine in Germany have trained eight German military sniffer dogs to recognise scents associated with SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for Covid-19, in human saliva and phlegm samples.

We were able to distinguish with 96 per cent precision between samples from infected patients and non-infected peoples after a week of preparation. It boiled down to 1,157 correct positive, 792 right negative rejections, and only 63 incorrect signals or rejections.

The research is considered to be a small pilot test, but the encouraging results indicate that sniffer dogs may play some role in detecting and controlling possible Covid-19 infections. The research was published in the journal BMC Infectious Diseases last week.

“These preliminary findings indicating that pre-trained scent detection dogs can discriminate reliably, accurately and rapidly between samples from SARS-CoV-2 infected patients and negative controls is truly exciting. We have built a solid foundation for future studies to explore what the dogs do scent and if they can be used to discriminate also between different disease timepoints or clinical phenotypes,” Professor Holger A Volk, department chair of small animal medicine and surgery at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, said in a statement.

The dogs who sniff out illnesses are not a new idea. Previously, sniffer dogs were used to detect Parkinson’s disease, malaria, certain types of cancer and a number of respiratory infectious diseases.

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