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Woman who can smell Parkinson's disease describes moment she realised her husband had it

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Joy Milne has rare condition of hyperosmia, an incredibly sensitive sense of smell.

Ms Milne said her husband Les had Parkinson's disease when he was 29 years old .

By the time he was 31 "his smell had completely changed" and other things had "begun to happen", leading her to think "maybe he had a brain tumour" She later went to a Parkinson's meeting in Perth , Scotland , and noticed "by the time I left, I could tell you who has Parkinson's".

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