Dogs Deployed at Helsinki Airport Can Detect COVID-19 With Almost 100% Accuracy

Science Alert  September 25, 2020
The aim of this study by an international team of researchers is to evaluate if the sweat produced by COVID-19 persons has a different odor for trained detection dogs than the sweat produced by non-COVID-19 persons. The study was conducted on 3 sites, following the same protocol procedures, and involved a total of 18 dogs. The percentages of success of the dogs to find the positive sample in a line containing several other negative samples were 100p100 for 4 dogs, and respectively 83p100, 84p100, 90p100 and 94p100 for the others, all significantly different from the percentage of success that would be obtained by chance alone. They concluded that there is high evidence that the armpits sweat odor of COVID-19 persons is different, and that dogs can detect a person infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus…read more. TECHNICAL ARTICLE 

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