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Dogs might be able to sniff out COVID-19, study suggests
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.