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Helsinki Airport, Finland: Dogs sniffing Covid arrive

From 22 September at the Helsinki airport, in Finland, a team of 4 dogs that smell Covid (there will be 10) is engaged in checks. In 10 seconds they reveal the positives even days before.

Gianluca Riccio di Gianluca Riccio
27 September 2020
in Medicine
Dogs sniffing Covid at Helsinki Airport in Finland
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From the beginning of the week, travelers at Helsinki can undergo free COVID-19 screening. It will not be a swab carried out by a laboratory technician: there will be a team of four dogs able to smell the coronavirus in human sweat.

This pilot study at Helsinki Airport in Finland is the largest of its kind and hopefully Covid sniffing detection dogs could soon play a role in helping the world to curb. the pandemic. Yes, that's right: dogs that can smell the Coronavirus will be able to support controls in many places.

Dogs sniffing Covid at Helsinki Airport in Finland
One of the dogs capable of sniffing Coronavirus during a checkup

How Covid sniffing dogs work

It's known: Dogs have an incredibly keen sense of smell, and with the right training, they can use it to help humans track down anything from bombs to bed bugs. Some dogs may even smell the signs of illness or infection in people. For this reason, immediately after the outbreak of the pandemic, several research groups around the world have launched studies to understand if it was possible to train dogs that smell Covid.

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If so, these hounds could provide a non-invasive way to quickly screen people for the virus and would not require test supplies or expensive lab equipment.

The best results come from Helsinki

Since then, many of the groups have shared results incredibly promising of these efforts, including researchers from the University of Helsinki. As early as last May they reported training several dogs to distinguish between urine samples from healthy people and people with COVID-19.

Since then, the group has continued to train its Covid sniffing dogs on a person's sweat samples, quickly gaining (time to sniff) a precision close to 100% , even days before symptoms appear.

How canine "control" at Helsinki airport works

Dogs sniffing Covid at Helsinki Airport in Finland
The container used for the control is passed to the dogs able to smell the Coronavirus. They never come into contact with the traveler

As of September 22, four Covid-sniffing dogs are on duty at Helsinki Airport, offering free volunteer screening to travelers - six more dogs are undergoing training ready to join. The check is simple: the traveler passes a clean towel over his neck and drops it into a container. The container is then presented to one of the dogs, who stays in a separate cabin all the time without ever coming into contact with the traveler.

After about 10 seconds with the sample, the dog sniffing Covid will react in two ways. It will remain inert (and in that case it will not have detected anything) or give a signal that the personnel are trained to recognize. In this case, the traveler will be referred to the health check to carry out other tests.

Detection of dogs on take off

Helsinki is the first airport to continuously deploy Covid sniffing dogs. In August, Dubai International Airport launched a similar but much more restricted program. The Helsinki study will last four months: the data collected could provide the best indication ever on the usefulness of the dogs used for this type of screening.

Since detection dogs are expensive and take a long time to train, they would never be able to completely replace standard coronavirus tests.

However, for the head of the study Anna Hielm-Björkman, Covid sniffing dogs could serve as an additional weapon against the virus, possibly in places that require regular checks, such as nursing homes e schools .

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