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Huh. My first reaction is "well, duh" but then I remember that most people on HN and elsewhere have no experience with these things. Malaria has this smell. I
by filleduchaos 8y ago
Huh. My first reaction is "well, duh" but then I remember that most people on HN and elsewhere have no experience with these things.
Malaria has this smell. I can't describe it, I can only say that it's not unpleasant, but anyone who's tended to someone with the disease knows what I mean. The sweat, the breath, even the room the person lay in, it just has this smell.
- Arubis 8y agoI'm inferring that you've done this in the first person. Were you surrounded by people with the same experience, ie. was this detectable by everyone, or was this something that some people picked up on more than others? Curious for two reasons: the top-level comment here on some people being able to diagnose Parkinson's by smell, and my own experience being exposed to people experiencing malaria (albeit in a non-clinical setting with _plenty_ of other overwhelming smells) and not registering a common olfactory experience.