Reporting from Johannesburg, South Africa — As a boy in remote western Kenya, Fredros Okumu sat under the stars, smothered by the smoke of the family fire, until it was time to go to bed. Even now, ...

As it turns out, smelly socks can do more than stink up the laundry basket. In an effort to combat malaria, researchers in Tanzania are developing devices that use human foot odor to lure mosquitoes.

A WOMAN has given an insight into the foot world after revealing she's made selling socks a full-time profession. Cheyenne Harris' unusual career path has made her thousands of pounds with minimal ...

In global public health, disease-fighting tools that are cheap, available and sustainable are the Holy Grail. It might be hard to top the one being tested in Tanzania as a way to prevent malaria: ...

You take your shoes off after a long day of work, only to be greeted by a pungent odor rising from your socks. It's a familiar scenario which can be inconvenient, embarrassing and downright gross. Now ...

ROXY received compliments for her “beautiful” feet. Now, the 33-year-old is earning almost $180,000 by selling her smelly socks to people with foot fetishes. Roxy Sykes, 33, decided to try the foot ...

Whoever denied it, supplied it. A man in India was arrested after his smelly socks caused a dispute between him and a fellow passenger on a bus, the BBC reports. Police in India told the outlet that ...