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UConn  Taste and Smell Center Individuals who lose their sense of smell as a result of a respiratory virus generally give us a very clear history of dating their smell loss from a time when they were experiencing cold or flu symptoms. The other most common cause of smell loss is that due to an ongoing process in the nose and/or sinuses, specifically rhinitis (inflammation in the nose), nasal polyps and/or sinusitis. In people who date the onset of smell loss to a viral infection, it can be difficult discerning between viral damage and an ongoing process in the nose and/or sinuses as the cause of the loss. www.uchc.edu /uconntasteandsmell/viral.html   (0 words)

jasonspage.net » Virus Incurable disease on a French-controlled island off the coast of Africa has infected 1/5 of the population and is responsible for 77 deaths this week. Newly discovered virus that may reclassify viruses as the the impetus for life forming on Earth. Scientists are developing a smelling device that would detect diseases from human breath. jasonspage.net /category/virus   (0 words)

Health Information - Acne , Common Diseases, Beauty Tips, Health Tips You might be grossed out with the strong smell of garlic, but it is actually very effective in removing acne. When a person loses his or her sense of smell, it basically boils down to the dysfunction of the brain. Commonly, anosmia may be related to the inflammation of one’s nasal membranes that is often accompanied with rhinitis. www.gii.in /health_information   (0 words)

Smell and Taste Disorders: Brain, Spinal Cord, and Nerve Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition Smell: The ability to smell can be affected by changes in the nose, in the nerves leading from the nose to the brain, or in the brain. Permanent loss of smell results when fibers of the olfactory nerves—the pair of cranial nerves that connect smell receptors to the brain—are damaged or sheared at the roof of the nasal cavity. Seizures originating in the part of the brain where memories of smell are stored—the middle part of the temporal lobe—may produce a brief, false sensation of vivid, unpleasant smells (olfactory hallucinations). www.merck.com /mmhe/print/sec06/ch097/ch097a.html   (1659 words)

SMELL Smell is one of the chemical senses, the other being taste. Smells are detected in the nose by the specialised receptor cells of the olfactory epithelium. Smell therapy and the clinical use of odour is an area for the future (see below Therapy using smell memory). www.cf.ac.uk /biosi/staff/jacob/teaching/sensory/olfact1.html   (9408 words)

smell content at silicon.com Round-Up The net effect of this (other than possibly making your office smell like a gym) is that rather than sitting at their desks all day people are able to exercise throughout it. Comment When I arrive at Nasscom conferences, I can usually smell a grand-unifying-theme, an issue that transcends industry competition but this year was more like a smorgasbord of issues, rather than a Billy Bragg diatribe on a single topic. Sophos has claimed its latest virus top 10 is proof that reports on the death of email-borne viruses have been grossly... www.silicon.com /tags/smell.htm   (922 words)

Dynamiclear - Powerful antiviral solution What can be done is to attack the virus every time that it surfaces, depleting it with each encounter and diminishing the amount of virus retreating back into the nervous system. Hypericum perforatum is known to have potent antiviral and antibacterial properties which are beneficial in the treatment of the herpes virus. Sulfur, one of the main ingredients in Dynamiclear, is the basis of the modern antibiotic and is an age-old remedy used against infections and to help the recovery of wounds (especially by soldiers in times of war). www.dynamiclear.com   (0 words)

The Smell of Love - Healthy Living: Living a healthy lifestyle for disease prevention on MedicineNet.com Around the time they were ovulating (when their sense of smell is enhanced), the women were put alone in a room and presented with boxes containing the male volunteers' shirts. Raters said that the smells they preferred reminded them of current or ex-lovers about twice as often as did the smells of men who have MHC profiles similar to their own, suggesting that smell had played a role in past decisions about who to date. From diabetes to viral infection to schizophrenia, unusually sweet or strong body odors are a warning cue that ancestral females in search of good genes for their offspring may have been designed to heed. www.medicinenet.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=35284&page=3   (1017 words)

jasonspage.net » Smell Scientists have synthetically reproduced the fruit compound responsible for the natural smell of green apples. Tags: Research Synthetics Smell Bioengineering Genes Biofermentation Fruit. Scientists are developing a smelling device that would detect diseases from human breath. www.jasonspage.net /category/smell   (215 words)

I Don't Smell a Thing Some patients are referred by doctors; others stumble across smell centers on the Internet after having had their problems shrugged off by clinicians who do not know how to treat them or do not believe they are serious. When smell and taste loss can be linked to a problem such as acid reflux or diabetes, treatment of that condition may restore the senses. I have a slight loss of taste and a significant loss of smell, and that's either because of a long-gone viral infection or because I was born with a defective olfactory system. www.happyscrappy.com /clips/wp_smell.htm   (1839 words)

Viral Anosmia The virus may be present in your nose but that doesn't mean you'll have a sore throat and streaming nose. Most of what we perceive as taste is actually flavour, a process almost identical to smelling that is generated by the olfactory receptors as food is chewed and its odour rises through the back of the nose to be detected as flavour. Bearing in mind that 'some of your smell' is arguably as little as 1% and that four years is a long time, this is not a good prognosis. personal.ecu.edu /wuenschk/ViralMick.htm   (2240 words)

Online 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica Winden, to be distinguished from the Slovaks (q.v.) and from the Slovinci (see KASHUBES) west of Danzig] SMALLPDX, or VARIOLA (virus, " a pimple ") SMELL (connected etymologically with " smoulder " and " smoke ") encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU   (425 words)

Lost Sense of Smell It is interesting that you seem to have retained the ability to recognize distinct tastes (except bitter which you didn't mention) but you still can't appreciate the "flavor" of food. That's probably because of your loss of the sense of smell, since taste is very dependent on a good sense of smell. A reversible cause of loss of smell would be chronic ethmoiditis (sinusitis), which is an inflammation high up in the nasal passages that may cause narrowing or blockage. healthlink.mcw.edu /article/901645470.html   (529 words)

Olfaction: The Sense of Smell Smell depends on sensory receptors that respond to airborne chemicals. The cilia of the sensory neurons are immersed in a layer of mucus. Solutions containing a recombinant virus carrying the receptor gene were inserted into the nasal cavities of living rats. users.rcn.com /jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/O/Olfaction.html   (896 words)

Taste and Smell Disorders A reduced ability to smell (hyposmia) and loss of smell (anosmia) are the most common disorders of smell and taste. The ability to smell can be affected by changes in the nose, in the nerves leading from the nose to the brain, or in the brain. Permanent loss of smell results when fibers of the olfactory nerves—the pair of cranial nerves that connect smell receptors to the brain—are damaged or sheared at the roof of the nasal cavity. www.healiohealth.com /Library/Taste-and-Smell-Disorders.htm   (891 words)

The Taste and Smell Clinic - Zicam and Smell Loss - Washington D.C. - Dr. R.I. Henkin At The Taste and Smell Clinic, Washington, DC I have evaluated several patients who have claimed to have lost their smell function after use of this drug. While zinc is critical for maintenance of normal smell function through its action as a cofactor in carbonic anhydrase VI, given directly into the nostrils at high concentrations, it can initiate direct toxic destruction of the olfactory epithelium with which it comes into contact in its spray form. Loss and distortion of smell function are symptoms which require careful evaluation to insure that the cause of these sensory changes can be defined - many diseases have these symptoms associated with their onset (e.g, hypothyroidism, Alzheimer disease, various forms of cancer, etc.). www.tasteandsmell.com /apr04.htm   (803 words)

A Bug in my Bonnet A computer virus is a program that spreads across computers by attaching a copy of itself to the files on your computer. A virus is usually harmful and can corrupt data, overwrite files, or use up system resources and slow it down in the process. For example, the code for the "Stoned" virus contains the string (set of characters or phrase) "Your PC is now Stoned!" Polymorphic viruses encrypt their code on each infection so that the virus codes of two infected files don’t look the same. www.computersathome.com /virus/bug.html   (1934 words)

Herpes Simplex - UMMC (The virus may still be active in nearby tissue, but such persistence is rare.) The primary skin infection with either HSV-1 or HSV-2 lasts up to two to three weeks, but skin pain can last one to six weeks in a primary (the initial) HSV attack. It may be especially important to identify a primary infection (if possible) and to treat it as soon as possible, since some preliminary research suggests that early treatment may limit the number of virus particles that remain latent in the body and reduce the frequency of recurrent outbreaks. Other symptoms: smell and taste disturbances, double vision, odd mental states, bizarre or psychotic behavior, loss of the ability to speak or understand, memory loss, confusion, emotional volatility. www.umm.edu /patiented/articles/what_symptoms_of_herpes_simplex_virus_000052_2.htm   (2749 words)

Dragon Agro Products - Aroids, Carnivorous Plants, Orchids & Supplies In the case of Amorphophallus it is large and often knob-like, and is the source of the unpleasant smell give off by many of the species when in flower. The inflorescence is a gorgeous spadix that precedes the leaf in the spring. Susceptible to rust, anthracnose, leaf blight and dasheen mosaic virus. www.dragonagro.com /daparoids.htm   (2212 words)

Sense of Smell, Taste Impaired after Common Cold   (Site not responding. Last check: ) However, as you can attest, smell is a valuable facet of human existence, and some people without a sense of smell can become depressed or even malnourished (as the joy of eating is lessened). The sense of taste is separate from the sense of smell, but problems with taste alone are uncommon because there are so many nerve pathways from the tongue to the brain. Usually, problems with smell interfere with the flavor of food, where flavor is the whole food experience: smell, taste, texture, and temperature. healthlink.mcw.edu /article/1031002708.html   (466 words)

The Probert Encyclopaedia - Computer Viruses (S-T) The Stealth Boot B Virus is a computer virus which uses stealth techniques to avoid detection and which infects the diskette boot sector. The SVC 5.0/6.0 Virus is an encrypted computer virus which uses stealth techniques to avoid detection and which infects the fixed disk partition table. Before the virus infects a file, it uses TPE to encrypt itself and then writes the encrypted code, which is different everytime, to the file to be infected. www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/L6.HTM   (6800 words)

Foul Smelling Felines To become a member of this group, the veterinarian should be able to tell immediately what the cause of the smell is, whether it be urine, feces, halitosis (bad breath), or having been sprayed by a skunk. What happens next may vary, from simple recommendations on how to remove skunk odor, to detailed discussions as to whether further diagnostics may be necessary to elucidate the underlying cause, and which treatments might be appropriate once a diagnosis is made. The presence of an unusual or offensive odor could be a warning sign that your cat may have a problem such as a systemic illness or a skin disorder, and a veterinary visit is often necessary to determine the cause. www.manhattancats.com /Articles/foul_smelling_felines.html   (1193 words)

LiveScience.com - Inside Look: How Viruses Invade Us Little extensions on the virus are called antigens, which help the virus hunt down the target host cell [3-D anatomy of HIV]. A virus does contain some genetic information critical for making copies of itself, but it can't get the job done without the help of a cell's duplicating equipment, borrowing enzymes and other molecules to concoct more virus. Proteins on the surface of the virus recognize its target by the proteins or sugars on the surface of the host cell. www.livescience.com /humanbiology/060605_mm_virus_infect.html   (1643 words)

TSV: Events - TSV turns FOUR As dengue fever has been rampant during the past 2 months and in order that no Virus catches it, Captain Jenn went after everyone with her bottle of mosquito repellent and no one escaped her razor-sharp vision. Baby Virus just couldn't wait for the long-winded adults as he poked his little finger into the cake and tasted the thick chocolate immediately.... At one point, Virus CO rolled at top speed down a hill and managed to take a right sharp turn safely. www.teamspeedvirus.com /events/2005/4ani   (857 words)

UrbanWire Your PC might next be able to emit the fabulous smell of Famous Amos cookies just before it burns out on you. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much research done that revealed the mysteries of the human sense of smell and the scents which were brought into the theatres were so overpowering that the idea was chucked aside. Later, when the user wants to re-create the smell, all the computer has to do is to remix the basic scents in the right proportions to duplicate the original smell. www.theurbanwire.com /UW/pcsmells.html   (1044 words)

Common Virus Found in Human Prostate Tissue "Other studies have detected DNA from the BK virus in prostate cancer cells, but this study is the first to pinpoint the location of viral protein expression to one precursor stage in the development of prostate cancer, and to a specific location within prostate cells," Imperiale says. While the virus has received scientific study for its role in kidney disease, only a handful of scientists are studying a possible connection to cancer. TAg protein from the BK virus was present in 43 percent of the tissue samples, but only in atrophic lesions - a precursor stage of prostate cancer development. www.psa-rising.com /med/inflam/bk_virus.html   (937 words)

Nose knows not These otolaryngologists, at Virginia Commonwealth University, poked through records of 445 patients seen at the university's clinic for smell and taste disorders between 1983 and 2001, and correlated rates of certain accidents with olfactory deficits. Twenty-five percent of the events involved eating spoiled food, and 23 percent, a failure to smell a natural-gas leak. Seven percent were attributed to failure to smell a fire (patients could report more than one hazardous event). www.whyfiles.org /shorties/149cant_smell/index.html   (636 words)

Anti-Virus Research - How to smell a RAT - CA Classifying a newly discovered 'creature' as a virus, a worm, a Trojan or a security exploit becomes more difficult and anti-virus researchers spend a significant amount of their time discussing the proper classification of new viruses and Trojans. The virus recognizes specially crafted UDP packets as its internal commands and in response to one of them it presents the remote user with the remote shell access (the remote user's privileges depends on those of the original infected program, which installed the server). As a result, any producer keeping their virus data unhidden these days, will be ostracized and singled-out for their unprofessional and anti-social behaviour (surprisingly, there are still companies releasing virus update files containing, plain-text virus code fragments). www3.ca.com /securityadvisor/newsinfo/collateral.aspx?cid=53581   (5078 words)

Apple Matters | The iPod Virus: Apple Arrogance Second, they were unaware of the virus… Like 90% of all PC users out there who are currently infected with something, you just don’t know until someone gets an e-mail, file, or iPod from you. RavMon[rev].exe is a benign trojan not a virus as summarized by both Symantec and Sophos. While I think it is perfectly fine to compare a computer to a human life since the whole virus vulnerability is exactly that kind of analogy in and of itself, the analogy used here in the article is quite poorly made. www.applematters.com /index.php/section/comments/the-ipod-virus-apple-arrogance   (9313 words)

Techdirt: The Return Of iSmell - How To Sniff Out A Bad Idea It was a joke, but it didn't take long for one company, DigiScents, to actually pitch such a product - bringing a whole new meaning to the phrase "that website stinks." It should be no surprise at all that DigiScents died a quick death, but unfortunately the idea lives on. This virus causes the DigiScents peripheral to emit odors that cannot properly be described in a family newspaper. The virus takes advantage of a weakness in Internet explorer (all versions 5 and 6), and so far Microsoft has not been able to find a patch. www.techdirt.com /articles/20040219/0842244.shtml   (970 words)

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