August 10, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 79 Hemophilia: A Hemorrhagic Disposition Bumps and bruises. Cuts and scrapes. Gashes and gouges. Injuries small and large are familiar to all of us, but what happens […]
July 27, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 78 Bartonella: Keep Calm and Carrión “Let’s do Bartonella next,” we said. “It’ll be straightforward and fun,” we promised ourselves. Turns out we were half right. In this […]
July 13, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 77: Legionnaires’ Disease: A Killer Mist Celebration wasn’t the only thing in the air in Philadelphia in July of 1976. Over the course of several days during the […]
June 29, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 76 Chickenpox: There’s always a ‘but’ Ah, chickenpox, that pesky old childhood illness. And that’s all it is, right? Just a mild, routine infection that we all used […]
June 15, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 75 Mercury: The cost of progress When you think of mercury, what springs to mind? Is it the entrancing drop of shimmery liquid that flows from a broken […]
June 8, 2021January 9, 2024COVID-19 COVID-19 Ch 20: Looking forward by looking back Over the past year and a half, we have learned so much about this virus, but there is still more to know. […]
June 1, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 74 Naegleria fowleri: The “brain-eating amoeba” Every summer, when the warm weather rolls around and the local ponds and lakes heat up enough for a tempting dip, remember […]
May 25, 2021January 9, 2024COVID-19 COVID-19 Ch 19: Your Stories From virology to vaccines, from education to economics, and from disparities to disease, our Anatomy of a Pandemic series has covered many […]
May 18, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands Our sign-off, “wash your hands, ya filthy animals”, has never been more appropriate than with this episode on puerperal or childbed fever, […]
May 11, 2021January 9, 2024COVID-19 COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics The COVID-19 pandemic has touched all of our lives in incredibly varied ways, with no two experiences exactly alike. Despite this, we […]