Suffering from a rare disease, a woman named Joy Milne and 72-year-old is able to identify a carrier of Parkinson’s disease just by smelling them. Everything would have started from the diagnosis made by the septuagenarian a few years earlier on her late husband. The Scottish said in particular that her husband developed a different smell at the age of 33. 12 years later, the husband was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
She identifies the sick by smelling their T-shirts
These descriptions made by the woman interested the scientific world who asked her for certain experiments. During the research, the scientists asked Mme Milne to feel the T-shirts worn by people with Parkinson’s and those without. This exercise was successfully completed by the woman who distinctly identified the T-shirts worn by the patients. She also identified a T-shirt worn by a person who was not yet declared a carrier but who will suffer from it in the future.
Collaborates with several scientists
With its highly developed sense of smell, Joy Milne collaborates with several scientists to see if she can smell other diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis (TB). “I have to do my shopping very early or very late because of people’s perfumes, I can’t go into the chemical section of the supermarket”entrusted the septuagenarian. “So yes, a curse at times, but I also went to Tanzania and did TB research and cancer research in the US – just preliminary work. So it’s a curse and a boon.”she continued.