Dogs can detect Covid-19 by sniffing armpits, study claims

[lordsummerisle]

The Telegraph
Yahoo.com/news

Dogs are able to detect the presence of Covid-19 on infected patients by sniffing their armpits, according to a new study by French scientists.

Researchers at the national veterinary school in Alfort, outside Paris, 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.

The dogs’ overall success rate was 95 per cent, according to a paper published on Friday on Biorxiv.org, a preprint website that posts studies that have not been peer-reviewed.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dogs-detect-covid-19-sniffing-144406354.html

[milestogo]

1. Most dogs sniff crotches. Does that work?

[fleur-de-lisa]

10. . . .

[LisaL]

2. 95% success rate sounds as good as covid test.

[tanyev]

3. Dogs: Best job ever!

[Beakybird]

4. I use peanut butter as deodorant. I wonder if that would skew results.

[milestogo]

5. Not as much as bacon.

[Beakybird]

7. Yeah. I used to use bacon.

[Xipe Totec]

6. Isn't loss of sense of smell one of the symptoms? What happens after the dog gets infected? nt

[LisaL]

11. From all available evidence, dogs aren't at major risk of getting infected.

[FakeNoose]

8. Get them to every hospital and medical clinic in the US

Man's best friend!

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. Poor dogs

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