German Sniffer Dogs Detect COVID-19 with 94 Percent Accuracy

German Sniffer Dogs Can Now Detect COVID-19 with 94 Percent of Accuracy

GERMAN SNIFFER DOGS – Trained dogs can now detect the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in human saliva samples with 94 percent accuracy.

According to the report of GMA News, Dogs are trained to smell the “corona odor” that comes from cells in infected people, said Esther Schalke, a veterinarian at the German armed forces school for service dogs.

Filou, a 3-year-old Belgian Shepherd, and Joe Cocker, a 1-year-old Cocker Spaniel, are two of the dogs trained at Hanover University of Veterinary Medicine. The head of the veterinary clinic, Holger Volk said “We did a study where we had dogs sniffing samples from COVID-positive patients.”

“We can say that they have a 94% probability in our study … that they can sniff them out. So dogs can really sniff out people with infections and without infections, as well as asymptomatic and symptomatic COVID patients,” he added.

Stephan Weil, premier of Lower Saxony, the state where Hanover is the capital, said he admired the study and called for a feasibility test before using sniffer dogs on a daily basis life, like people attending concerts.

“We now need tests in selected events,” Weil said.

Meanwhile, in Finland, dogs are trained to detect the novel coronavirus and began sniffing passenger samples at Finland’s Helsinki-Vantaa airport in September, on a pilot project with a more common airport test. The Santiago International Airport also uses dog detectors.

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