We've all heard of dogs knowing people's emotions or read facial expressions. But can it detect a positive COVID-19 person from sniffing his skin? Apparently, a study proves this. In fact, one airport from Finland already tries this method to know which person has the virus or not.
Can dogs detect viruses from people?
Have you heard about 'virus-sniffing dogs'? It turns out that dogs have the ability to sniff the virus from a person infected with it. But they require special training to do so.
In fact, an airport in Finland currently does this method in order to know which person has the virus or not. Finland's Helsinki-Vantaa airport has recently run a test trial of the virus-sniffing dogs.
People can volunteer to have the dogs sniff their skin. Once the dog reacts on the person-- through yelping, pawing, or lying down-- that person may be positive with the virus.
To those who are afraid of dogs, airport staff could also ask passengers to wipe their skin with a cloth tested by the dog through sniffing its smell.
To make sure the dog's sniff is accurate, the same person that the dog found COVID positive will undergo a free nasal swab test.
If the passenger tests positive on that too, he will be admitted to Helsinki University Hospital's health information station for further instructions.
Ten dogs have already started working in the airport, courtesy of the University of Helsinki.
Study shows dog accuracy could beat any COVID test
Finland was not the only place pushing on the idea of virus-sniffing dogs. Medical dogs all over the world were already being trained to do the same thing.
Researchers said that 94% up to 100% of the time, dogs can actually recognize Coronavirus from a person.
If this is accurate, researchers believe that an individual trained dog could replace any COVID-19 tests faster and cheapest way possible.
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Written by Jamie Pancho
