Canine noses know
Used for sniffing out covid
Two dogs that can detect
Covid-19 through an infected
persons’ breath and
sweat are being deployed at
Miami International Airport.
Similare pilot prpgrams and
tests have been carried out
airports in Finland and the
United Arab Emirates.
Police in Dubai have built
up a special unit of 38 sniffer
dogs that can detect COVID
19 from human sweat
samples with 92% accuracy
using German Shepherds,
Labradors, Cocker Spaniels
and Border Collies, to recognize
the scent of COVID-19
using samples of sweat from people
with confirmed infections, collected by
holding a swab in an armpit for a few
minutes.
In Florida, Cobra, a Belgian Malinois,
and One Betta, a Dutch Shepherd,
were found to be between 98 and
99 per cent accurate in picking up the
virus in peer-reviewed, double blind trials
at the Forensic and Justice Center
at Florida International University.
The two seven-year-old dogs will
sniff employees’ masks at a security
checkpoint to find a scent caused by a
metabolic change which occurs when
a person contracts Covid in a 30-day
trial, the first time of its kind at an American
airport.
Should the virus be detected, the
airport worker will undergo a rapid Covid
test.
“The big ‘aha’ for me was not only
could the dogs be trained for this work,
but that they were so accurate,” Prof
Furton told the Washington Post.
In testing, One Betta had an accuracy
rate of 98.1 per cent while Cobra’s
was 99.4 per cent.
Runway Cafe Would Like to Thank
Our Customers at JFK Airport for Helping Us
Celebrate Our First Year in Business!
Buy one pizza slice
and Get one Free.
NOW OPEN Mon – Fri , 7:30am – 3:30pm
Port Authority Administration Bldg 14
Jprunwaycafe.com • info@jpruwaycafe.com • (718) 244-0214
P L A C E O R D E R F O R Q U I C K P I C K U P
AIRPORT VOICE, OCTOBER 2021 23
HELP US CELEBRATE!
Hand made and baked on the premises.
Offer Good through October 31
National Pizza Month
link
/Jprunwaycafe.com
link