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When taking her husband to a meeting of local Parkinson’s patients and their caregivers in Perth, Scotland, where they lived, Milne noticed that the other patients smelled exactly like her husband. Joy Milne immediately noticed that the unpleasant musky odor her husband had been giving off for more than two decades at this point was Parkinson’s disease
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Kunath and University of Manchester chemist Perdita Barran teamed up to research Joy Milne’s sense of smell. They focused on confirming whether Milne could smell Parksinson’s disease and, if so, what chemicals she smells to identify the disease.
If they found the specific molecules related to Parkinson’s disease that her nose detects, the research could lead to a new diagnosis standard for the disease, whose criteria haven’t changed in over 200 years.
https://greekreporter.com/2024/09/15/joy-milne-smell-parkinsons-disease-supersmeller/
[...]
Kunath and University of Manchester chemist Perdita Barran teamed up to research Joy Milne’s sense of smell. They focused on confirming whether Milne could smell Parksinson’s disease and, if so, what chemicals she smells to identify the disease.
If they found the specific molecules related to Parkinson’s disease that her nose detects, the research could lead to a new diagnosis standard for the disease, whose criteria haven’t changed in over 200 years.
https://greekreporter.com/2024/09/15/joy-milne-smell-parkinsons-disease-supersmeller/