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  • Rare genetic disorder causes Portuguese boy to reek of dead fish every time he eats seafood

    11/03/2025 9:14:08 AM PST · by Red Badger · 19 replies
    Not The Bee ^ | November 03, 2025 | Wolfgang Ramsay
    As many people have pointed out, it's basically the case that we don't actually like the taste of "fish." After all, one of the worst things you can say about a food — particularly fish! — is that it smells or tastes "fishy." So you can imagine how difficult it was for this Portuguese family when their son started smelling, well, exactly like that. Via Live Science: Shortly after eating different types of fish, the child would develop an odor of rotting fish emanating from his body. The smell was noxious and powerful, especially around his head and hands. He...
  • Medical breakthrough: Hope for people that smell like fish

    03/04/2012 7:05:09 PM PST · by Free ThinkerNY · 63 replies
    wlsam.com/ABC News ^ | March 4, 2012
    NEW YORK) -- There’s new hope for people with Trimethylaminuria, a rare disorder that causes its sufferers to smell like dead fish. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia recently won a $36,000 grant to study the genes behind the disorder—work scientists believe could lead to new developments in helping control the symptoms of Trimethylaminuria, also known as TMAU. ABC News introduced TV viewers to a TMAU sufferer in 2006: Former model and teacher Camille said TMAU endangered her career. “I was so focused on ‘Do I smell? Do I smell? Are they saying things? Are they whispering?...