Episode 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map
For many of us, our encounters with listeria may not go beyond reading the occasional headline about an outbreak from contaminated hot […]
Special Episode: Sarah Everts & The Joy of Sweat
You may be wondering if there’s a typo in this week’s TPWKY book club selection – The Joy of Sweat? Are we […]
Episode 113 Vitamin D: The D stands for drama
There is no shortage of ailments that vitamin D has been claimed to prevent or cure – various types of cancers, heart […]
Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless
What do you get when you combine a love of reading with an interest in biology/public health/medical history and a background in […]
Episode 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm
Only our second episode of the season and we’re already getting in over (and inside) our heads with one of the biggest […]
Episode 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?
We’re kicking off our sixth season in the same way we ended our fifth: with another headline-making respiratory virus. But as our […]
Episode 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play
Over five years ago, on October 31, 2017, the very first episode of This Podcast Will Kill You premiered, an action-packed (and […]
Episode 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)
Somehow it’s taken us until the penultimate episode to cover this season’s first mosquito-borne virus. But we assure you, this episode is […]
Episode 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating
Although today we tend to think about diseases in terms of signs and symptoms, tests and treatments, that hasn’t always been the […]
Episode 107 Sepsis: It’s a mess
Over the years of the podcast, we have often struggled with questions of why: why pathogens act the way they do, why […]
