{"id":2914,"date":"2021-02-04T18:23:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T18:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/?p=2914"},"modified":"2022-03-24T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T21:29:16","slug":"german-sniffer-dogs-detect-covid-19-with-94-accuracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/german-sniffer-dogs-detect-covid-19-with-94-accuracy\/","title":{"rendered":"German Sniffer Dogs Detect COVID-19 With 94% Accuracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs can detect explosives and drugs, but can they also detect the new coronavirus? Experts at a veterinary clinic in Germany say yes, as they trained dogs that would detect with an accuracy of 94% people infected with COVID-19, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-germany-sniffer-do\/german-sniffer-dogs-detect-covid-19-with-94-accuracy-idUSKBN2A32Q4\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In Finland, dogs trained to detect the new coronavirus began sniffing samples of passengers at Finnish Helsinki-Vantaa airport last September in a pilot project alongside regular PCR tests.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago International Airport in Chile also uses canine detectors.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Hanover University of Veterinary Medicine said that these puppies feel the virus in human saliva samples, sniffing these samples. Joe Cocker, a 1-year-old Spanish Cocker and Filou, a 3-year-old Belgian Shepherd, are two of these dogs trained to smell the virus.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;So dogs can even detect people with and without infections, as well as asymptomatic and symptomatic patients with COVID-19,&#8221;<\/em> say those at the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>The premier of Lower Saxony, with the capital in Hanover, says he was impressed by the study and asked for feasibility tests before turning to puppies<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the German army and a University Veterinary Foundation announced that they were working with various dog breeds to find out the answer, training dogs to &#8220;smell&#8221; the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The dogs of the German army were to be trained to detect, with the help of smell, people infected with the new coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>The animals that will &#8220;smell&#8221; the virus belong to the only Dog Training Center within the Bundeswehr, located in the Vulkaneifel rural district in western Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dogs can detect explosives and drugs, but can they also detect the new coronavirus? Experts at a veterinary clinic in Germany say yes, as they trained dogs that would detect with an accuracy of 94% people infected with COVID-19, according to Reuters. In Finland, dogs trained to detect the new coronavirus began sniffing samples of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2919,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Can Dogs Detect the New Coronavirus? Experts Say Yes with 94% Accuracy","_seopress_titles_desc":"Dogs have been trained to detect COVID-19 with 94% accuracy, sniffing samples at airports and detecting the virus in human saliva. Impressive results!","_seopress_robots_index":"","tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,999,1],"tags":[25,253,894],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2920,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2914\/revisions\/2920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businessner.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}