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Thai sniffer dogs can detect Covid-19 in sweat, project shows

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Thai sniffer dogs trained to detect Covid-19 in human sweat proved nearly 95 percent accurate during training and could be used to identify coronavirus infections at busy transport hubs within seconds, the head of a pilot project said.

Six Labrador Retrievers participated in a six-month project that included unleashing them to test an infected patient's sweat on a spinning wheel of six canned vessels...

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