According to French researchers, dogs can detect Covid-19 by sniffing samples from infected patient’s armpits.
Researchers at the national veterinary school in Alfort, outside Paris, sated that they trained eight Belgian Malinois shepherd dogs to identify people infected with the coronavirus from odour samples taken from the armpits of more than 360 subjects, both healthy and suffering from Covid-19. Their accuracy rate was 95 percent.
Selected gods had been previously trained for work in search and rescue missions, detecting explosives or sniffing out a variety of diseases such as diabetes and some cancers.
“We conclude that there is strong evidence that dogs can detect a person infected by the virus responsible for Covid-19 disease,” said professor Dominique Grandjean, who was part of the research.