DOGS CAN DETECT VIRUS INFECTION BY ARMPIT SCENT: STUDY

Dogs are able to detect the presence of COVID-19 on patients by sniffing their armpits, according to a new study by French scientists. Researchers at the national veterinary school in Alfort, outside Paris, trained eight Belgian Malinois shepherd dogs to identify infected people from samples taken from the armpits of more than 360 subjects, both healthy and suffering from COVID-19. The dogs’ success rate was 95 per cent, according to a paper published on Friday on Biorxiv.org, which posts studies that haven’t been peer-reviewed.