Like many autoimmune diseases, multiple sclerosis so clearly illustrates how detection and description of a disease only gets us so far when […]

We ended our myxoma virus episode on a bit of a cliffhanger, briefly alluding to the emergence of another deadly rabbit virus […]

Invasive rabbits so numerous they form a “gray blanket” across the land. A killer virus, intentionally released to keep the bunnies at […]

Our episode last week ended on a hopeful note, a rare occurrence for this podcast, and it was due in large part […]

Here on the podcast, we’re no strangers to multi-host parasites with complicated life cycles, intricate ecologies and dense human histories. But human […]

Blood tests and liver function results can only tell us part of the story when it comes to the impact that hepatitis […]

This week, we’re dipping a toe back into the vast waters of hepatitis viruses, this time with a focus on hepatitis B. […]

Chances are you know someone with endometriosis, or perhaps you’re affected yourself. But despite its incredibly high prevalence, endo remains almost criminally […]

In this week’s episode, we cover a bacterium whose recent emergence and rapid spread has been largely an epidemic of our own […]

We’re back with our first episode of Season 5, and we’re starting off with a bang! Epidemic typhus, that friend of war […]