Experts of the armed forces of Austria decided to teach dogs to search for people infected with coronavirus.
“let’s make this special training a permanent part of the curriculum in military dog training center, will be clear only after tests”, — said the Minister of defence Claudia Tanner. Animals, trained, will be able to identify infected even before they have symptoms.
Dogs are trained using a special tube with the molecules of the smell that are found in the mask of the patient COVID-19. To protect the dog and its trainer snorkels treated with ultraviolet irradiation. Then the shepherd will need to discover the essential smell in the conditions close to real, reports TV channel “360”.
Previously, scientists from research Institute of infectious diseases U.S. army investigated the behaviour of the virus Sars-CoV-2 on different surfaces.
The researchers found that the longest the virus remains in the skin of a pig. At room temperature it can live up to four days. At low temperatures the virus remained stable throughout the two-week experiment.
Sars-CoV-2 were applied to porcine skin, after which the samples were placed in an environment with constant temperature. At room temperature, the average “half-life” – the time in which the dying half of pathogenic microorganisms amounted to about 47 hours. At 4 degrees Celsius, this temperature is normally maintained in the processing plants of meat, viable strains remained detectable for two weeks. In the summer heat at 37 degrees, the virus was able to spend about 8 hours, according to South China Morning Post.
The researchers say that pig skin resembles human skin, and the behaviour of the virus it is likely to be similar.
