Bizarre talent: Woman can smell if people have Parkinson’s disease
A woman’s hyper-sensitive sense of smell has been harnessed by scientists to develop a test that can diagnose Parkinson’s disease. The test has been in development for years since academics discovered Joy Milne could smell the condition. This 72-year-old woman from Perth, Scotland, has a rare condition that enhances her sense of smell. A different odor developed in her late husband, Les, when he was 33 – 12 years before he was diagnosed with the …