Six Belgian tracking dogs from the army, police and fire brigade were successfully retrained to become corona dogs. They can test sweat samples for the presence of the corona virus. “The effectiveness is 95 percent. The dogs perform just as well as the PCR tests ”, says microbiologist Chris Callewaert (UGent).
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Don’t be alarmed if you are asked to wipe under the armpits this summer. There is a good chance that dogs will be used to detect the corona virus by then. The training program …
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