The typical list of doggie demands won’t cut it anymore: If a mutt intends to impress, she needs to nose out patients harboring deadly parasites in their blood. Today, at the 2018 American Society of ...

This is a representational image. A man was hospitalized with lung infection caused by smelling his own socks regularly. Getty Images/Fernanda Calfat A man living in Zhangzhou, in southeast China, was ...

As the global battle against malaria stalls, scientists may be adding a novel tool to the fight: sniffer dogs. In recent tests trained sniffer dogs successfully diagnosed malaria infections simply by ...

A man has been hospitalised with a severe fungal infection in his lungs - believed to be caused by sniffing his socks at the end of each day. The man, from Zhangzhou, in South-eastern China, would ...

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A man has ended up in hospital with a severe fungal infection in his lungs caused by sniffing his socks. The unnamed man from China would take a whiff every day at the end of work. As he was changing ...