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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
