Scent dogs can detect COVID-19 more rapidly and accurately than current tests, finds review study - eviltoast

Scent dogs may represent a cheaper, faster and more effective way to detect COVID-19, and could be a key tool in future pandemics, a new review of recent research suggests. The review, published in the Journal of Osteopathic Medicine, found that scent dogs are as effective, or even more effective, than conventional COVID-19 tests such as RT-PCR.

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      1 year ago

      Less exploiting dogs for profit overall please.

      It’s not like current covid tests are super slow and inaccurate, exploiting dogs for it should not be allowed.

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    Makes sense. I wonder if Apopo’s tuberculosis-sniffing Giant Pouched Rats would be good at it as well.