Brittny Mejia
Los Angeles Times
Dogs are being trained to sniff out people who are COVID-19 positive by picking up the particular smell of sweat from their armpits. Veuerâs Sean Dowling has more.
In her quest to overcome one of COVID-19 s strangest symptoms, Mariana Castro-Salzman was willing to try anything.
The 32-year-old visited an oncologist and got a CT scan of her head. She saw an ear, nose and throat doctor. Took steroids. Went to a neurologist who put her on anti-anxiety medication.
She began sniffing essential oils every day. A homeopath prescribed bath flowers, supplements and chaga mushrooms.
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In her quest to overcome one of COVID-19’s strangest symptoms, Mariana Castro-Salzman was willing to try anything.
The 32-year-old visited an oncologist and got a CT scan of her head. She saw an ear, nose and throat doctor. Took steroids. Went to a neurologist who put her on anti-anxiety medication.
She began sniffing essential oils every day. A homeopath prescribed bath flowers, supplements and chaga mushrooms.
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And yet, nearly a year after recovering from the coronavirus, her senses of smell and taste
are still scrambled. Onions and garlic evoke a nausea that has nothing to do with their actual scent. Coffee smells like a burned tire, but worse.
Episode 101 Sweet Temptations: How Sugar Captivated Tastebuds and Global Trade
Aired: Saturday, January 23rd 2021
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HOSTED BY Caity Moseman Wadler Kat Johnson
The desire for sweetness is biologically hardwired in humans, according to Dr. Gary Beauchamp, longtime former director and president of the Monell Chemical Senses Center. It is an evolutionary response that developed way back when sweet things were hard to find in the natural environment. Now, we can find sweets just about
anywhere.
Part of our global trade mini-series, this episode focuses on all things sweet! Ironically, the history of sugar comes with some bitter truths. Stories include the problematic journey of the cocoa bean from West Africa to chocolate products in the U.S., farmers pushing back against “Big Sugar,” cultural appropriation at the National Date Festival, and the intertwined history of Silk Road merchants and the first domesticated apples.
Send A new modelling study hints that odour-based screens could quash outbreaks. But some experts are sceptical it would work in the real world.
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In a perfect world, the entrance to every office, restaurant and school would offer a coronavirus test â one with absolute accuracy, and able to instantly determine who was virus-free and safe to admit and who, positively infected, should be turned away.
That reality does not exist. But as the nation struggles to regain a semblance of normal life amid the uncontrolled spread of the virus, some scientists think that a quick test consisting of little more than a stinky strip of paper might at least get us close.
Katherine J Wu, The New York Times
Published: 20 Jan 2021 11:43 AM BdST
Updated: 20 Jan 2021 11:43 AM BdST FILE A coronavirus testing site in Los Angeles, Jan 3, 2021. A new modelling study hints that odour-based screens could quash outbreaks. But some experts are sceptical it would work in the real world. (Kendrick Brinson/The New York Times)
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That reality does not exist. But as the nation struggles to regain a semblance of normal life amid the uncontrolled spread of the virus, some scientists think that a quick test consisting of little more than a stinky strip of paper might at least get us close.