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    Posted: September 24 2020 at 10:58pm

Helsinki airport trials sniffer dogs as Covid-19 detectors https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54288067

Initial results show: early detection,  accurate, and fast, but of course as with any trial the more data that can be gathered the better the results.

Quote The dogs can detect coronavirus in humans five days before they develop symptoms, Anna Hielm-Bjorkman, the University of Helsinki professor who is running the trial, told Reuters news agency.

"They are very good [at detecting coronavirus]. We come close to 100% sensitivity," she said

Passengers wipe their necks with cloths, which are then placed in a can and put in front of dogs to sniff. A canine test can deliver a result within minutes. .
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[url]]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.03.132134v1.full[/url] or https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.03.132134v1.full 

Detection dogs as a help in the detection of COVID-19 Can the dog alert on COVID-19 positive persons by sniffing axillary sweat samples ? Proof-of-concept study

We conclude that there is a very high evidence that the armpits sweat odour of COVID-19+ persons is different, and that dogs can detect a person infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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