Up to five days before the test? – Dogs can sniff out corona infection

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A Finnish study suggests that dogs can’t just detect the coronavirus with their nose – and apparently even earlier than a test could. The study was well received by the participants for completely different reasons. Four-legged friends in the fight against the corona virus: According to the researchers, a pilot project with corona detection dogs at the airport in the Finnish capital Helsinki has delivered promising initial results. The three dogs have proven to be popular “corona testers” among travelers, said the researchers from the University of Helsinki. Accordingly, the dogs found an infection with the coronavirus in 0.6 percent of the cases of 2,200 passengers tested.

According to the information, the results largely agree with the results of the corona tests, which were also carried out on the passengers. “We performed 16,000 to 17,000 PCR tests at the airport and less than one percent of them are positive,” said Vantaa City Deputy Mayor Timo Aronkyto to journalists. Now the researchers want to check whether the dogs were actually able to sniff out all the infections that were also confirmed by corona tests. The final results should be presented at the end of the year. According to the researchers, preliminary attempts at the first major wave of infections at the beginning of the year indicated that the dogs can detect the virus with almost 100 percent accuracy – up to five days earlier than a corona test.

Research continues from July Participants wanted for study on corona sniffer dogs

The animal snoopers would be particularly well received by travelers, said the project manager Soile Turunen. Every day around a hundred people volunteered to stand in line to take part in the project. “People don’t complain about the snake, on the contrary,” said Turunen. Many would come by to say “hello”. For the pilot project, the researchers are working together with sniffer dog specialists from the organization “Wise Nose”. They hope that sniffer dogs can also be used in other places in the future, such as at larger gatherings, to detect corona infections. To do this, the animals sniff a swab that has been wiped over the traveler’s skin. Although studies with sniffer dogs have also been carried out in other countries, they are not yet officially used to detect the coronavirus. However, there are also projects in which dogs are trained to use samples to sniff out certain types of cancer, Parkinson’s disease, or bacterial infections.

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