November 2, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought To say that alcohol is a part of human culture is a bit of an understatement. The relationship our species has with […]
October 19, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 84 West Nile virus: The Crow in the Coal Mine It’s the summer of 1999 in New York City, and everyone’s looking towards the future, towards millennium parties and potential Y2K catastrophes. […]
October 5, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 83 Diabetes: Short & Sweet Almost everyone is familiar with diabetes mellitus in some way. Whether we know family or friends that have been diagnosed with the […]
September 21, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 82 Anthrax: The Hardcore Spore Twenty years ago this month, letters containing Bacillus anthracis spores were mailed to various politicians and news media offices in the US, […]
September 7, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 81 Chagas disease: The Reverse Triple Discovery A nighttime “kiss” from a bug that casts a curse on its recipient in the form of a lifelong, and possibly fatal, […]
August 24, 2021January 9, 2024Season 4 Episode 80 Dysentery loves a disaster While many of us know how deadly dysentery can be from playing countless hours of The Oregon Trail, there’s only so much […]
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 […]