Staff at Medical Detection Dogs in Milton Keynes are training a 'wet-nosed line of defence'.
The specially trained dogs will now be detecting the odour of Covid-19 in real-life settingsSix dogs are being trained with the charity Medical Detection Dogs in Milton Keynes., showed that the virus has a unique odour that specially-trained dogs can detect.
Researchers are appealing for anyone who suspects they have the virus - or has tested positive - to come forward. In the final stage, known as validation, trainers will ask the dogs to discriminate Covid-positive from Covid-negative participants under strict blind conditions - meaning that even the dogs' trainers do not know who has the virus.Image caption,In phase one, more than 3,750 people across the UK donated odour samples, by wearing socks, face masks and shirts which were processed by the research team and used for training and testing the dogs.
An "elite team" of bio-detection dogs carried out double-blind testing, correctly identifying the odour more than 94% of the time.
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