Specialist dogs can sniff out Covid '94% of the time', new research reveals
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mirror.co.ukCovid-19 has a distinct smell that can be detected by specially trained dogs with up to 94% accuracy, research suggests. The findings, not yet peer-reviewed, are based on six dogs who tested more than 3,500 odour samples donated by the public and NHS staff.
They were able to sniff out samples from people infected with coronavirus but asymptomatic, as well as those who had low viral loads.
Project leader Prof James Logan, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “What was great was the dogs that have been trained on the original variant...
could detect the new variant without any additional training. What do you think? Have your say in our comment section below... "So this gives us real hope and really suggests
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