Tue. 07/28 - Your Lost Laundry May End Up On Instagram
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Good News Ride Home for Tuesday, July 28th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird. Can trained dogs sniff out positive COVID-19 infections? It's 2020, and people are apparently still finding legit buried treasure. |
| 0:24.3 | This week, NASA is sending a 600,000-year-old Martian rock back to where it came from. |
| 0:31.5 | And the coolest new Instagram sensations are a pair of octogenarian laundromat owners from Taiwan. |
| 0:38.3 | Here are some of the cool things from the news today. |
| 0:43.3 | Kicking off today with some potentially positive COVID-19 news from our canine friends. |
| 0:51.3 | Dogs being trained to sniff out drugs, weapons, and diseases like malaria and even |
| 0:56.2 | cancer is nothing new. But a new study shows that when trained, dogs are able to sniff out |
| 1:02.2 | COVID-19 infections. Quoting CNBC, a new study, which was piloted by the University of Veterinary Medicine |
| 1:09.5 | Hanover, the Hanover Medical School, |
| 1:11.5 | and the German Armed Forces, found that if properly trained, dogs were able to discriminate |
| 1:17.0 | between human saliva samples infected with SARS-CoV-2 and non-infected samples with a 94% success |
| 1:25.6 | rate overall. The hope is this method of detection could be one day used in public |
| 1:30.8 | areas such as airports, sporting events, and other mass gatherings, in addition to laboratory |
| 1:36.0 | testing, to help prevent future COVID-19 outbreaks, according to researchers, end quote. |
| 1:42.1 | The study was conducted using eight dogs from Germany's armed forces. |
| 1:45.9 | They were trained for a week using a thousand samples of both infected and uninfected saliva, |
| 1:51.1 | although neither of the researchers nor the dog handlers knew which was which. |
| 1:56.1 | Marin-Bancokritz Blickwitow who conducted the study, says the dogs can probably detect a metabolic |
| 2:01.6 | change, which occurs when a person is infected. The one issue, the dogs apparently can't differentiate |
| 2:07.1 | COVID-19 from other diseases like influenza, yet. But the research team says that is the next step. |
| 2:15.1 | And the Hanover Medical School in Germany aren't the only ones conducting |
| 2:18.3 | trials on trained dogs. Researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are also |
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