Trained dogs can detect Covid-19 in sweat in Thai project
Six labrador retrievers participated in a six-month project and take only one to two seconds to detect the virus, useful in areas such as transport hubs
17 March 2021 - 15:04
Bangkok — Thai sniffer dogs trained to detect Covid-19 in human sweat proved nearly 95% accurate during training and could be used to identify coronavirus infections at busy transport hubs within seconds, the head of a pilot project said.
Six labrador retrievers participated in a six-month project that included unleashing them to test an infected patient’s sweat on a spinning wheel of six canned vessels...
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