This Podcast Will Kill You

Our tapeworm episode last week mentioned the remarkable finding of tapeworm eggs in a 270 million-year old shark coprolite, that is, fossilized […]

We can probably all agree that the thought of a tapeworm hiding out in your gut is not a pleasant one. Nor […]

The classic tale of epidemiology almost always begins with public health hero John Snow traipsing all over London to track down the […]

[CW: Firsthand account includes description of the death of an infant. Skip approximately first 3 minutes to avoid.] What comes to mind […]

Chlamydia trachomatis may have stolen the show in our last episode, but there are many other Chlamydiae that deserve some time under […]

With this episode, you’re getting much more than you probably bargained for, thanks to the quirks of Chlamydia trachomatis. This small but […]

While last week’s episode covered ample ground when it came to lightning strikes, there is so much more to the world of […]

Lightning strikes have an aura of myth and legend around them, and their mystical reputation is inflated by stories that tell of […]

In last week’s episode, we explored the mysterious world of multiple sclerosis (MS) and the ongoing quest to determine what causes this […]

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