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Ep 90 Human African Trypanosomiasis: A lot to unpack
Season 5
Here on the podcast, we’re no strangers to multi-host parasites with complicated life cycles, intricate ecologies and dense human histories. But human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) might require the …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Special Episode: Hep B Stigma & Discrimination
Season 5
Blood tests and liver function results can only tell us part of the story when it comes to the impact that hepatitis B has on people living with the virus. Far too often overlooked is how stigma and …
Published on 3 years, 10 months ago
Ep 89 Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2
Season 5
This week, we’re dipping a toe back into the vast waters of hepatitis viruses, this time with a focus on hepatitis B. The hepatitis B virus, though second to be named, was first to be discovered, and…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Ep 88 Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash
Season 5
Chances are you know someone with endometriosis, or perhaps you’re affected yourself. But despite its incredibly high prevalence, endo remains almost criminally understudied, undertreated, and undera…
Published on 3 years, 11 months ago
Ep 87 C. diff: Fighting poop with poop
Season 5
In this week’s episode, we cover a bacterium whose recent emergence and rapid spread has been largely an epidemic of our own making. Clostridium difficile isn’t your typical pathogen - in many cases …
Published on 4 years ago
Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode
Season 5
We’re back with our first episode of Season 5, and we’re starting off with a bang! Epidemic typhus, that friend of war and famine, may have caused more wartime deaths than all battles combined, and t…
Published on 4 years ago
Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought
Season 4
To say that alcohol is a part of human culture is a bit of an understatement. The relationship our species has with alcohol can be traced so far back that we see evidence of it in our DNA, in the way…
Published on 4 years, 1 month ago
Ep 84 West Nile virus: The Crow in the Coal Mine
Season 4
It’s the summer of 1999 in New York City, and everyone's looking towards the future, towards millennium parties and potential Y2K catastrophes. But if they turned their eyes to the streets around and…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Ep 83 Diabetes: Short & Sweet
Season 4
Almost everyone is familiar with diabetes mellitus in some way. Whether we know family or friends that have been diagnosed with the condition or we’re directly impacted ourselves, diabetes mellitus h…
Published on 4 years, 2 months ago
Ep 82 Anthrax: The Hardcore Spore
Season 4
Twenty years ago this month, letters containing Bacillus anthracis spores were mailed to various politicians and news media offices in the US, resulting in illness, death, and a widespread fear that …
Published on 4 years, 3 months ago