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Researchers trained dogs to sniff out COVID-19 infections in just a few days
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:23 pm
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:23 pm
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After just a few days of training, dogs in Germany proved capable of identifying people infected with COVID-19, according to researchers. The dogs, part of a study by a veterinary university in Germany, were able to sniff out the coronavirus with stunning accuracy.
According to the pilot study published Thursday in BMC Infectious Diseases by the University Veterinary Medicine Hannover, eight dogs from Germany's armed forces trained for just five days before they could identify the virus in humans. They sniffed the saliva of more than 1,000 people, both healthy and infected, identifying the coronavirus with a 94% success rate.
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"We think this works because metabolic processes in the body of a diseased patient is completely changed, and we think that the dogs are able to detect a specific smell of the metabolic changes that occur in those patients," Professor Dr. Maren Von Köckritz-Blickwede said in a YouTube video on the study Thursday.
Dr. Holger Volk, another professor from the university, said that dogs have a sense of smell that is 1,000 times better than humans, so their potential within the medical field is huge.
"We know for a very long time that dogs have been used in a lot of walks of life, but for medical detection, it's a novel at the end of the day," Volk said. "People have not really realized the potential a dog could have to detect diseased from non-diseased patients."
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Pretty neat! Here comes Fido!!
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:27 pm to Bamboozles
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dogs have a sense of smell that is 1,000 times better than humans
No fair, they don't have to wear masks.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:37 pm to Bamboozles
Some of the most expensive and excessively trained dogs in the world can't reliably tell their handlers if actual drugs are in a vehicle, but these dogs can accurately sniff out random people who have Covid. Yeah.
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:53 pm to Bamboozles
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Maren Von Köckritz-Blickwede
LSU just offered him he’s a 4 star cornerback
This post was edited on 7/24/20 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 7/24/20 at 11:56 pm to WillFerrellisking
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Proof?
Live PD when multiple dogs "hit" on a vehicle. Police search and find nothing.
I will also throw personal experience in, as well. I was riding with a friend, he gets pulled over for running a red light. Cop said he smelled weed. Friend refused the search. K-9 was brought out and "alerted to narcotics". They pulled us out and searched the car up and down. They found nothing because nothing had ever been in the car.
Cop let us go without even writing a ticket or giving a warning for the red light.
This post was edited on 7/25/20 at 12:04 am
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