Dogs can detect Covid-19

Dogs can detect Covid-19 – study

By Agence France-Presse

May 25, 2021 12:36 am

DOGS can be trained to detect more than 90 percent of Covid-19 infections even when patients are asymptomatic, according to research published on Monday, which authors hope could help replace the need to quarantine new arrivals.

Using their remarkable sense of smell - which can pick up the equivalent of half a teaspoon of sugar in an olympic-sized swimming pool - dogs have already shown that they can sniff out maladies such as cancer, malaria and epilepsy.

Bobby the K9 retriever dog sniffs sweat samples, in order to detect the Covid-19 coronavirus through volatile organic compounds, at the Faculty of Veterinary Science in Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok on May 21, 2021. Lillian SUWANRUMPHA / AFP

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