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Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir
Season 2
You’ve seen the recent headlines and heard the news reports, but they’re only part of this deadly virus’s story. This week we’re covering the rest. We take you on a one-of-a-kind tour of measles, exp…
Published on 6 years, 9 months ago
Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow
Season 2
This week's episode is nothing like any of our past episodes, and there will never be another quite like it. How can we be so sure, you ask? Because this week, we're covering prions, the terrifying, …
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.
Season 2
Arr, mateys, climb aboard for a swash-buckling tale of when the high seas were full of disease! Today we’re covering a non-infectious but no less terrifying scourge that has wrecked millions of lives…
Published on 6 years, 10 months ago
Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race
Season 2
What do Korea, Slovenia, Finland, and the southwestern US all have in common? If you guessed Hantaviruses, you’d be quite correct. Today we bring you all the details on hantaviruses, from the deadly …
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP
Season 2
Are you hungry for braaaaiiiinnnnssss? Or for fugu at the very least? We hope so, because this week we’re talking zombies and tetrodotoxin. In this crossover episode with Dr. Shane Campbell-Staton fr…
Published on 6 years, 11 months ago
Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane
Season 2
This episode is so good that we’re putting it out a full day early. Pour yourself a quarantini and cozy up with us as we tell you a story of a bacterium that slowly strangles children to death, a sci…
Published on 7 years ago
Ep 15 MRSA: Make Resistance Susceptible Again
Season 2
We've gotten pretty graphic on this podcast before, but this episode takes it to a whole new level. The omnipresent Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that wears many faces. Often that face is harm…
Published on 7 years ago
Ep 14 Rabies: Don't dilute me, bro
Season 2
After a long hiatus we are back with a much anticipated look at one of the most feared diseases of all time: rabies. We cover everything from its evolutionary history to its massive case fatality rat…
Published on 7 years, 1 month ago
Ep 13 Don't Tread on my Monkshood: Crossover w/ IDOP
Season 1
What's the difference between a physician and a pretender, a magician and a poisoner? That's a question we'll try and answer in today's episode! We are very excited to bring you our first botanical p…
Published on 7 years, 10 months ago
Special Episode: HIV/AIDS
Season 1
The cherry on top of our first season, this bonus episode features more of Frank, Hillel, and Brryan's stories. Frank and Hillel, who live on opposite coasts of the US, share what it was like for the…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago