What does cancer smell like - Reading - Adapted from National Geography

Tanzania

Tanzania

________ is one of 30 countries with the highest rates of tuberculosis.

Ants

________ smell the chemicals that make up odors with olfactory receptors on their antennae.

Diseases

________ can change the chemicals we emit, resulting in giving off a different odor.

Dog

A(n) ________ can be trained to smell several types of cancers, including melanoma, breast and gastrointestinal cancers and some infectious diseases in humans, including malaria and Parkinsons disease.

Ants

________ pick up signs of disease by perceiving chemicals that can be found in exhaled breath, in sweat, urine, and blood.

Its not just dogs

Even worms and ants can be trained to detect markers of illness, from COVID to tuberculosis