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  1. Ep 164 Rift Valley Fever: Ruminating on ruminants

    Hemorrhagic virus? Check. Deadly disease? Check. Mosquito-borne? Check. Affected by animal movement, human activity, and environmental change? Check. Rift Valley Fever has all the markings of a classic TPWKY episode. This week, we’re doing

  2. Ep 163 Circadian Rhythm: Live from Perth, Australia

    We are coming at you with our very first live episode from Perth, Australia! Here at the 2024 Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (https://www.aioh.org.au/) Annual Scientific Conference and Exhibition (https://www.aioh.org.au/an

  3. Special Episode: Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai & Diseased Cinema

    Everyone’s got a favorite disease movie. What’s yours? Does it feature zombies like 28 Days Later (2002), or is it more grounded in reality, like Contagion (2011)? Does it end with a glimmer of hope or with a dose of despair? Who are the ba

  4. Ep 162 Allergies Part 2: Shots, pills, & pens

    Yes, the world may be out to get us with allergens around every corner, but we’ve got some tricks up our sleeve to help us cope. Our allergy treatment toolkit includes an impressive suite of tools, and in the second episode of our two-part

  5. Ep 161 Allergies Part 1: Pollens, nuts, & bugs

    Sometimes it seems like the world is out to get us: bees in our garden, pollen in the air, nuts in our brownies, any number of other things that could trigger an allergic reaction ranging from itchy eyes and a runny nose all the way to anap

  6. Special Episode: Philip Eil & Prescription for Pain

    In February 2012, Paul Volkman was sentenced to four consecutive terms of life imprisonment for his role in illegally prescribing and dispensing pain medications that resulted in the deaths of several individuals in his care. This was a rem

  7. Ep 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?

    For decades, it seemed like the appendix would go the way of 8-track players, pagers, and the phonograph. Outdated, obsolete, not worth keeping around. Surgeons performed appendectomies like it was spring cleaning - when in doubt, cut it ou

  8. Ep 159 Scabies: Tiny but Mite-y

    Among the many conditions that creep under your skin and make scratching irresistible, scabies alone holds the honor of being called simply “The Itch” for centuries. In this episode, we examine how the burrowing scabies mites cause this ext

  9. Ep 158 Scarlet Fever: You’ve changed

    A mere 150 years ago, uttering the words “scarlet fever” was enough to strike fear into the hearts of many, especially parents of young children. For a brief period of time, this disease, caused by an infection with the bacterium Streptococ

  10. Special Episode: Dr. Emily Monosson & Blight

    We really don’t give fungi the credit they deserve. Over the years of this podcast, we’ve covered only a handful of fungal pathogens, and pathogenic fungi themselves represent a teeny tiny proportion of the incredible diversity of fungal li

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