Post-viral anosmia is one of the leading causes of smell loss in adults, accounting for up to 40% of cases, according to the British Rhinological Society. It's not yet known how many COVID-19 patients ...

This article was originally published on Undark. Growing up, Julian Meeks knew what a life without a sense of smell could look like. He’d watched this grandfather navigate the condition, known as ...

Being able to smell is a sense that can easily be taken for granted until it’s gone. The sense of smell not only enhances the way one experiences the environment around you and helps people enjoy life ...

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Baltimore – One day in kindergarten, Alex Pieraccini sat and watched her peers pass around spices, sniffing them up as a sensory exercise. Pieraccini, now 30, couldn’t smell anything. “I was like, ...

Loss of smell, or anosmia, is one of the earliest and most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19. A new study identifies the olfactory cell types most vulnerable to infection by the novel coronavirus ...

Anosmia, or the loss of the ability to smell, can have many causes. More recently, both anosmia and hyposmia have been associated with infection by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

Workplaces do it. Newly reopened public libraries do it. LAX does it. Some restaurants, bars, and retail stores started doing it when governors let them serve customers again: Use temperature checks — ...

Reports from South Korea, China and Italy say losing the sense of smell and taste may be a symptom of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Specialists in the UK have suggested ...

CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and pop-culture junkie, is co-author of "Whatever Happened to Pudding Pops? The Lost Toys, Tastes and Trends of the '70s and '80s," as well as "The ...