A breakthrough in coronavirus research: loss of smell and loss of taste may well be specific symptoms of Covid-19. Otolaryngologists (ENT), doctors specializing in diseases related to the areas of the ear, nose and throat, alerted Friday about the resurgence of cases of anosmia, that is to say the disappearance of the smell without a stuffy nose, which can be doubled with ageusia, the disappearance of taste.
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Symptoms usually associated with the flu
Doctor Jimmy Mohammed, columnist on Europe 1, explains that if these symptoms usually accompany viral diseases like the flu, their recent and strong increase could indicate that they are also a specific sign of the coronavirus.
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Consequence: if people present these symptoms, it will be useless to test them because one is almost sure that they are reached of the viral infection. The other issue is that of the prognosis: who will be affected by this loss of taste or smell, and who will suffer from it? Will we have a treatment to offer in the near future? We stay in a rather vague area but we discover things day after day. So you have to be careful.