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Finland using dogs trained to sniff out coronavirus at Helsinki Airport - National:
Finland has deployed coronavirus-sniffing dogs at the Nordic country's main international airport in a four-month trial of an alternative testing method that could become a cost-friendly and quick way to identify infected travelers.
Four dogs of different breeds trained by Finland's Smell Detection Association started working Wednesday at the Helsinki Airport as part of the government-financed trial.
"It's a very promising method. Dogs are very good at sniffing," Anna Hielm-Bjorkman, a University of Helsinki professor of equine and small animal medicine, said.
"If it works, it will be a good (coronavirus) screening method at any other places," she said, listing hospitals, ports, elderly people's homes, sports venues and cultural events among the possible locations where trained dogs could put their snouts to work.
While researchers in several countries, including Australia, France, Germany the United States, are also studying canines as coronavirus detectors, the Finnish trial is among the largest so far.
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2020, @06:44AM (4 children)
Dogs are people, too, you fucks.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2020, @07:29AM (3 children)
Dog is just a societal construct!
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2020, @08:00AM (2 children)
Your societal construct is licking his balls again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2020, @08:42AM
His balls are a social construct too.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2020, @09:26AM
You're jealous that Dog won't let you lick his balls.
(Score: 2) by linkdude64 on Wednesday September 30 2020, @07:17AM (1 child)
PERKELE!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2020, @12:00PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxApxTu4rZQ/ [youtube.com]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 30 2020, @02:09PM (4 children)
If they can use dogs to sniff out Coronavirus, then why can't they also use dogs trained to sniff out thumb drives or pocket drives that contain "bad" files? (eg pr0n, copyright infringements, wrongthink, etc)
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 30 2020, @05:53PM
The Yakima airport (https://flyykm.com/) uses dogs that're trained to sniff out 'evil' files. The bad thing is, they have a tendency to attack white people and piss on copy machines.
(Score: 2) by PinkyGigglebrain on Wednesday September 30 2020, @06:09PM (2 children)
The US police already have some dogs trained to find hard drives, USB drives and related media already. They currently use them during house searches when they are looking for kiddie porn and related stuff.
https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/11/17449002/police-k9-training-thumb-drives [theverge.com]
Probably only a mater of time before they start getting used in copyright infringement cases too.
"Beware those who would deny you Knowledge, For in their hearts they dream themselves your Master."
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday September 30 2020, @06:14PM (1 child)
That's nice. However the police should train their dogs to distinguish USB drives and hard drives that contain bad files. Avoid false positive alerts on drives that contain only good files.
Is there a chemotherapy treatment for excessively low blood alcohol level?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 03 2020, @09:24AM
Your optimism is a false positive.