COVID-19 in human samples.Researchers with a German veterinary university trained eight dogs from the country’s armed forces to sniff out the saliva of more than 1,000 healthy and infected people.
They used a specially designed machine with six “scent holes.” The machine uses an algorithm to randomize the samples — five containing negatives and one containing a positive.The dogs were able to accurately identify the virus with a 94 per cent success rate.
While only preliminary, the authors suggest the findings could help form a reliable screening method for the virus. Can I get the coronavirus from my pet? “We think that this works because the metabolic processes in the body of a diseased patient are completely changed,” Maren von.