Man ’s best friend has found another way to help out .
Add this to the infinite list of good things dogs do : Potentially notice coronavirus carriers and carry through lives .
investigator in Finland will deploy up to 10 dog-iron to the Helsinki airdrome . There , they will whiff sweat samples from travelers and betoken which ones potentially have COVID-19 , the Washington Postreports . multitude will swab their necks to pull together the sweat sample and then posit it in an opening in a wall for the frank to snuff .
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Back in May , research worker at the University of Helsinki detect preliminary evidence that dogs can “ faithfully and quickly identify a COVID-19 positive human . ” Scientists in the United States and United Arab Emirates are exploring canine detection , too . The Post describe that detent in Dubai were more than 90 percent accurate in notice the computer virus in exertion sample distribution from randomly choose melody passengers .
The Finland airport ’s pilot computer program — heh — start Wednesday . The Associated Pressreportsthat four dog — ET , Kossi , Miina , and Valo — are ready to start sniff while six more are in training . ( Six more did n’t make it through the training , but they ’re still safe boys and girl . )
The pups should be able to give their result within 10 arcsecond , taking up less than a minute of the traveler ’ sentence , the Post pen . The tests are also voluntary ( and barren ) and the people who submit a stew sample will also be asked to take a more traditional COVID-19 mental testing to see whether the dogs are accurate .
One investigator , Anna Hielm - Björkman , however , order the andiron could be more accurate than the standard polymerase chain response ( PCR ) coronavirus tests , whichis usually administered through a nasal or pharynx swab . The dogs may also detect the virus before a PCR test would , she tell , according to the Post .
“ It ’s a very promising method . Dogs are very good at sniffing , ” Hielm - Bjorkman say theAssociated Press .
More funding and exact results will be needed to expand the platform and to find out whether the dogs — which take for a while to train — can be used on a wider scale .
