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PHOTOGRAPH BY DANIEL ETTER, REDUX
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What’s that smell? When you’re sick, does your own body odor seem somehow different?
Yes, say researchers. “Diabetes can make your urine smell like rotten apples, and typhoid turns body odor into the smell of baked bread,” writer Erika Engelhaupt says. “Worse, yellow fever apparently makes your skin smell like a butcher’s shop.”
Reseachers are trying to see if smells can help us root out cancers, brain injuries, even Parkinson’s. Here’s what we know. (Pictured above, Joy Milne demonstrates how she works with a mass spectrometer.)
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