The loss of smell that can accompany coronavirus is unique and different from that experienced by someone with a bad cold or flu, say European researchers who have studied the experiences of patients.

Olfaction is one of the most elusive of the human senses. It sustains life by enabling several critical functions, such as our ability to locate and select food, our choice of mates, influencing ...

Loss of smell (and so taste more on that later) is a common symptom. Prof Carl Philpott, an academic surgeon and professor of rhinology and olfactology at the University of East Anglia ...