We’ve known canines are trainable to detect anything. From sniffing illegal and dangerous items into signaling incoming seizures, they have proved to be efficient detecting agents. For the service animals at Paradise Dog Training in Fenton, Michigan, a new detection training regiment is in place for COVID-19 detection.

As part of the virus-detection training, the dogs are presented by 10-15 buckets. In each of the buckets is a cotton ball soaked with spit. Some of these cotton balls have the SARS-CoV-2 virus and others don’t.

Lori and Jack Grigg train the dogs daily and claim that two of their dogs have a 75-85% success rate of detecting an infection. “It’s a whole lot quicker way of getting tested and getting quicker results,” said Lori.

Source: CityBeat

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