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Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You
Season 1
This is it, y'all: the season finale. This week we’re talking about HIV/AIDS, one of the biggest pandemics of modern times. We were fortunate enough to speak with three individuals who have had vastl…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Ep 11 Ebola: The New Kid on the Block
Season 1
Let's face it. This is the episode you've been waiting for. Are you ready for one of the most publicized epidemics of the century? Because we're ready to tell you about it. Ebola has been in the scie…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Ep 10 Yellow Fever: Is there a Hamilton song about this?
Season 1
Today we're talking about yellow fever, a disease with a history as colorful as its name, and a vector as pretty as a picture (depending on whom you ask, I suppose). From an epidemic that decimated M…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Ep 9 Tuberculosis: A Slow Burn
Season 1
Today, we’re taking a page straight out of Dickens and talking about tuberculosis- a disease as rich in history as it is in bloody sputum. We'll travel the path of an individual Mycobacterium tubercu…
Published on 7 years, 11 months ago
Ep 8 ABRACADABRA - Go Away Malaria!
Season 1
It's both a disease of dinosaurs and a plague of people. A gin and tonic might make you forget how much those bites itch, but it won't protect you much from this mosquito-borne monster. That's right …
Published on 8 years ago
Ep 7 Hit Me With Your Best (Polio) Shot
Season 1
A scientific rivalry for the ages, a president with a closely kept secret, and a summertime with no pool time. What do all these things have in common? Well step right up and take a listen- today we'…
Published on 8 years ago
Ep 6 Plague Part 2: TGFA
Season 1
We're back with another episode all about plague-TGFA: Thank Goodness For Antibiotics! Today we'll focus on the status of plague in the modern world: where it is, where it isn't, and what we can do a…
Published on 8 years ago
Ep 5 Plague Part 1: The GMOAT
Season 1
That's right y'all... Today we're talking the GMOAT: The GREATEST MORTALITY OF ALL TIME: BLACK DEATH. This episode we'll cover the biology and history of one of the most epic diseases of all time- Ye…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Ep 4 The Poop Show
Season 1
That's right.. this is the poop show! Today we talk cholera- the bacterial disease that makes you liquid-poop your pants (and then some). Travel back in time with us to when London was a sewage-fille…
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago
Ep 3 Gnarlypox
Season 1
This week we pay tribute to one of the gnarliest diseases of all time, and the only human disease that's ever been eradicated (thus far). That's right, people- we're talking smallpox! It's gonna get …
Published on 8 years, 1 month ago