Thailand’s first batch of coronavirus-sniffing pooches have been trained and are ready to help detect those stricken with COVID-19.
Six Labrador retrievers have spent the past two months sniffing cans filled with socks and cotton soaked with sweat from COVID-19 patients and are now ready to take up posts at airports, seaports, land crossings or tourist spots.
“Dogs are 50 times better than humans in distinguishing smells, and these Labrador retrievers have long noses with a great, fast sense of smell,” said Kaywalee Chatdarong, a veterinary sciences professor at Chulalongkorn University. “Plus, they are friendly and easily trained.”
Travelers could soon find these labs sniffing out whether they are with COVID. Photo: Veterinary Science Faculty at Chulalongkorn University
She said the dogs, which can identify asymptomatic carriers with a 94.8% accuracy rate,…
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