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Nobody is certain, although it seems unlikely. Any URI virus seems capable of causing anosmia if its protein coat matches a key on your olfactory cells. It appears that viral anosmia is a matter of bad luck: the virus cells match an individual’s olfactory receptor cells in very few cases. But in those in which it does, viral anosmia occurs.
