While many of us know how deadly dysentery can be from playing countless hours of The Oregon Trail, there’s only so much […]

Bumps and bruises. Cuts and scrapes. Gashes and gouges. Injuries small and large are familiar to all of us, but what happens […]

“Let’s do Bartonella next,” we said. “It’ll be straightforward and fun,” we promised ourselves. Turns out we were half right. In this […]

Celebration wasn’t the only thing in the air in Philadelphia in July of 1976. Over the course of several days during the […]

Ah, chickenpox, that pesky old childhood illness. And that’s all it is, right? Just a mild, routine infection that we all used […]

When you think of mercury, what springs to mind? Is it the entrancing drop of shimmery liquid that flows from a broken […]

Every summer, when the warm weather rolls around and the local ponds and lakes heat up enough for a tempting dip, remember […]

Our sign-off, “wash your hands, ya filthy animals”, has never been more appropriate than with this episode on puerperal or childbed fever, […]