Scientists identify unique 'smell of human death'

Chemical cocktail emitted from decomposing flesh could help train dogs searching for missing bodies

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Decomposing human bodies have a unique smell than separates them from other animal corpses, researchers have revealed.

Scientists from the University of Leuven in Belgium have discovered a cocktail of five chemical compounds that is given off by rotting human flesh, but not by other dead animals.

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