Just you wait until the world’s governments are putting out the call for smelly socks—suddenly that bulging gym bag hidden in your dormitory’s wardrobe seems a lot more valuable. To Tanzania ...

The researchers swabbed stinky socks worn by people between 7 a.m. and 11 p.m. and found that half of them contained pseudomonas aeruginosa — a type of bacteria that causes infections in humans ...

One farm in East Devon is singlehandedly bringing an end to the never-ending sock scavenger hunt with "smell-resistant" socks that apparently don't require any washing.

Exposure to carbon dioxide sharpens the senses of mosquitoes, enabling the bloodsuckers to better detect smelly socks and hone in on human prey, researchers found.

What does foot odor have to do with malaria? People might find smelly shoes and socks disgusting, but mosquitoes find them irresistible. Studies have found that mosquitoes are attracted to dirty ...

December 19, 2018 Yes, it is possible to get an infection from sniffing smelly socks — but it's unlikely A man in China ended up hospitalized with a lung infection from doing just that ...