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Ep 192 New World Screwworm: Oh-oh here they come
70 min
311/20/20252
Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal & Dead Ends!
54 min
311/20/20253
Ep 191 Famine: More than starvation
70 min
311/20/20254
Special Episode: Dr. Emily Monosson & Blight
53 min
311/20/20255
Ep 95 Tetanus: An inhuman calamity!
74 min
311/20/20256
Special Episode: Chlamydia, Koalas, and More!
58 min
311/20/20257
Ep 94 Chlamydia: Double Trouble
88 min
311/20/20258
Ep 87 C. diff: Fighting poop with poop
111 min
311/20/20259
Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode
109 min
311/20/202510
COVID-19 Chapter 10: Schools
66 min
311/20/202511
COVID-19 Chapter 9: Economics
69 min
311/20/202512
Ep 9 Tuberculosis: A Slow Burn
59 min
311/20/202513
Ep 8 ABRACADABRA - Go Away Malaria!
59 min
311/20/202514
Ep 7 Hit Me With Your Best (Polio) Shot
61 min
311/20/202515
Ep 6 Plague Part 2: TGFA
40 min
311/20/202516
Special Episode: Gabriel Weston & Alive
49 min
311/20/202517
Ep 193 Necrotizing Fasciitis: A strange beast
67 min
311/20/202518
Ep 190 Starvation: More than hunger
64 min
311/20/202519
Special Episode: Antonia Hylton & Madness
56 min
311/20/202520
Ep 189 Newborn screening: The future is here
78 min
311/20/202521
Ep 188 Candida yeast: Here, there, and everywhere
77 min
311/20/202522
Special Episode: Mary Roach & Replaceable You
48 min
311/20/202523
Ep 187 Hypothermia Part 2: How it helps
65 min
311/20/202524
Ep 186 Hypothermia Part 1: How it hurts
57 min
311/20/202525
Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine
51 min
311/20/202526
Ep 185 The Great Smog of London: “Thick, drab, yellow, disgusting”
74 min
311/20/202527
Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us
82 min
311/20/202528
Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne
49 min
311/20/202529
Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action
70 min
311/20/202530
Ep 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin
62 min
311/20/202531
Special Episode: Wendy Chin-Tanner & King of the Armadillos
56 min
311/20/202532
Ep 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts
86 min
311/20/202533
Ep 180 Food Dyes: It’s all marketing
85 min
311/20/202534
Special Episode: Professor Steven Mithen & The Language Puzzle
49 min
311/20/202535
Ep 179 Fluoride 2: Fighting tooth and nail
63 min
311/20/202536
Ep 178 Fluoride 1: The real tooth fairy
62 min
311/20/202537
Special Episode: Dr. Wendy Kline & Exposed
56 min
311/20/202538
Ep 177 Toxic Shock Syndrome: A shock to the system
85 min
311/20/202539
Ep 176 Strychnine: The WD-40 of Victorian Medicine
79 min
311/20/202540
Special Episode: Dr. Adam Ratner & Booster Shots
52 min
311/20/202541
Ep 175 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 2
60 min
311/20/202542
Ep 174 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 1
69 min
311/20/202543
Special Episode: John Green & Everything Is Tuberculosis
56 min
311/20/202544
Ep 173 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 2: Who’s making the call?
57 min
311/20/202545
Ep 172 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 1: Let’s give it a shot
67 min
311/20/202546
Ep 171 Pregnancy: Act 4
117 min
311/20/202547
Ep 170 Pregnancy: Act 3
115 min
311/20/202548
Ep 169 Pregnancy: Act 2
106 min
311/20/202549
Ep 168 Pregnancy: Act 1
98 min
311/20/202550
Special Episode: Rachel Gross & Vagina Obscura
48 min
311/20/202551
Ep 167 Viagra/Sildenafil: Raising the bar
73 min
311/20/202552
Ep 166 Amanita poisoning: Death Cap-tivating
70 min
311/20/202553
Ep 165 Fish Tongue Parasite: Parasite Appreciation Hour
62 min
311/20/202554
Ep 164 Rift Valley Fever: Ruminating on ruminants
75 min
311/20/202555
Ep 163 Circadian Rhythm: Live from Perth, Australia
72 min
311/20/202556
Special Episode: Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai & Diseased Cinema
46 min
311/20/202557
Ep 162 Allergies Part 2: Shots, pills, & pens
92 min
311/20/202558
Ep 161 Allergies Part 1: Pollens, nuts, & bugs
84 min
311/20/202559
Special Episode: Philip Eil & Prescription for Pain
60 min
311/20/202560
Ep 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?
73 min
311/20/202561
Ep 159 Scabies: Tiny but Mite-y
67 min
311/20/202562
Ep 158 Scarlet Fever: You’ve changed
70 min
311/20/202563
Ep 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going
62 min
311/20/202564
Ep 156 Retinoids Part 1: How it started…
57 min
311/20/202565
Special Episode: Kate Zernike & The Exceptions
55 min
311/20/202566
Ep 155 Stiff Person Syndrome: A rare disease in the spotlight
83 min
311/20/202567
Ep 154 Ask The Erins (Again!)
80 min
311/20/202568
Special Episode: Dr. Charan Ranganath & Why We Remember
57 min
311/20/202569
Ep 153 Alpha-Gal Syndrome: A tick bite gone bad
69 min
311/20/202570
Ep 152 Hemochromatosis: Ironing out the details
73 min
311/20/202571
Special Episode: Dan Egan & The Devil’s Element
48 min
311/20/202572
Ep 151 Stethoscope: Lub dub
78 min
311/20/202573
Ep 150 Norovirus: Tip of the poop iceberg
73 min
311/20/202574
Special Episode: Maria Smilios & The Black Angels
59 min
311/20/202575
Ep 149 Poison Control Part 2: Call me maybe
53 min
311/20/202576
Ep 148 Poison Control Part 1: Who you gonna call?
50 min
311/20/202577
Special Episode: Ben Goldfarb & Crossings
54 min
311/20/202578
Ep 147 Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease: Sympathy for the Devil
81 min
311/20/202579
Ep 146 Celiac Disease: Rootin tootin gluten
88 min
311/20/202580
Special Episode: Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan & Unheard
53 min
311/20/202581
Ep 145 IVF, Part 3: Industry
81 min
311/20/202582
Ep 144 IVF, Part 2: Invention
80 min
311/20/202583
Ep 143 IVF, Part 1: Infertility
86 min
311/20/202584
Special Episode: Dr. Noah Whiteman & Most Delicious Poison
61 min
311/20/202585
Ep 142 Leeches: It’s more powerful than magic, it’s nature
50 min
311/20/202586
Special Episode: Dr. Paul Offit & Tell Me When It’s Over
52 min
311/20/202587
Ep 141 Maggots: Such noble work
49 min
311/20/202588
Ep 140 Nipah virus: Of Fruit and Bats
89 min
311/20/202589
Special Episode: Dr. Sara Manning Peskin & A Molecule Away from Madness
55 min
311/20/202590
Ep 139 Supplements: “This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA”
86 min
311/20/202591
Ep 138 Fever: Take it to the limit
78 min
311/20/202592
Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage
66 min
311/20/202593
Ep 137 ME/CFS: What’s in a name? (A lot, actually)
98 min
311/20/202594
Ep 136 Long Covid: A long time coming
93 min
311/20/202595
Ep 135 Menopause is whatever you want it to be
124 min
311/20/202596
Ep 134 Tonsils: Underestimated and underappreciated
88 min
311/20/202597
Ep 133 Parvoviruses: Who let the dogs (and their viruses) out?
108 min
311/20/202598
Ep 132 Osteogenesis Imperfecta: All bones about it
85 min
311/20/202599
Ep 131 Parkinson’s Disease: Dopamine & discoveries
102 min
311/20/2025100
Ep 130 Cocoliztli: We do love a salty dish
112 min
311/20/2025101
Ep 129 Lymphatic Filariasis: Hiding in plain sight
80 min
311/20/2025102
Ep 128 Skin Cancer: We love and fear the sun
97 min
311/20/2025103
Ep 127 Bhopal: The 1984 Union Carbide Disaster
85 min
311/20/2025104
Ep 126 Migraine: A Cacophony in Four Movements
102 min
311/20/2025105
Ep 125 Blastomycosis: How fungus became amongus
78 min
311/20/2025106
Ep 124 The full spectrum of color vision deficiency
85 min
311/20/2025107
Ep 123 Hand, Foot, and Mouth (and Butt?) Disease
90 min
311/20/2025108
Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode
92 min
311/20/2025109
Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World
56 min
311/20/2025110
Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow
81 min
311/20/2025111
Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad
65 min
311/20/2025112
Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.
89 min
311/20/2025113
Special Episode: Dr. Andrew Wehrman & The Contagion of Liberty
57 min
311/20/2025114
Ep 119 Marburg virus: Too fast, too furious
77 min
311/20/2025115
Special Episode: Dr. Steven Thrasher & The Viral Underclass
64 min
311/20/2025116
Ep 118 Asbestos: Corruption and cancer and corporate greed, oh my!
98 min
311/20/2025117
Special Episode: Mary Roach & Fuzz
55 min
311/20/2025118
Ep 117 Bedbugs: Bug-bitten and bedeviled
89 min
311/20/2025119
Special Episode: Dr. Kate Clancy & Period
55 min
311/20/2025120
Ep 116 It's never lupus (except this time)
106 min
311/20/2025121
Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?
121 min
311/20/2025122
Special Episode: Angela Saini & Superior
55 min
311/20/2025123
Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map
93 min
311/20/2025124
Special Episode: Sarah Everts & The Joy of Sweat
64 min
311/20/2025125
Ep 113 Vitamin D: The D stands for drama
96 min
311/20/2025126
Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless
48 min
311/20/2025127
Ep 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm
98 min
311/20/2025128
Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?
90 min
311/20/2025129
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play
92 min
311/20/2025130
Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)
81 min
311/20/2025131
Ep 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating
77 min
311/20/2025132
Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess
99 min
311/20/2025133
Ep 106 Turner Syndrome: Let's talk about X
88 min
311/20/2025134
Ep 105 Down in the Mumps
77 min
311/20/2025135
Ep 104 The Bends: Industrial Revolution, baby
104 min
311/20/2025136
Ep 103 Leptospirosis: Don't blame the rats
75 min
311/20/2025137
Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy
94 min
311/20/2025138
Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You
74 min
311/20/2025139
Ep 100 Monkeypox: Here we go again?
91 min
311/20/2025140
Ep 99 Salmonella: A hard egg to crack
97 min
311/20/2025141
Ep 98 Folate: Marmite, anyone?
74 min
311/20/2025142
Special Episode: Snake Venom Evolution
59 min
311/20/2025143
Ep 97 Snake Venom: Collateral Damage
90 min
311/20/2025144
Special Episode: Coprolites!
53 min
311/20/2025145
Ep 96 Tapeworm: We encyst you listen
72 min
311/20/2025146
Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology
58 min
311/20/2025147
Re-Release: Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?
133 min
311/20/2025148
Re-Release: Ep 26 Vaccines Part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice
125 min
311/20/2025149
Special Episode: Electricity
46 min
311/20/2025150
Ep 93 Lightning & Other Stories: Power Hour (and a Half)
86 min
311/20/2025151
Special Episode: Epstein-Barr Virus
59 min
311/20/2025152
Ep 92 Multiple Sclerosis: Scarred nerves & skating saints
94 min
311/20/2025153
Special Episode: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus
53 min
311/20/2025154
Ep 91 Myxomatosis: Down the rabbit hole
87 min
311/20/2025155
Special Episode: Human African Trypanosomiasis & Drug Development
46 min
311/20/2025156
Ep 90 Human African Trypanosomiasis: A lot to unpack
87 min
311/20/2025157
Special Episode: Hep B Stigma & Discrimination
44 min
311/20/2025158
Ep 89 Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2
90 min
311/20/2025159
Ep 88 Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash
130 min
311/20/2025160
Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought
109 min
311/20/2025161
Ep 84 West Nile virus: The Crow in the Coal Mine
106 min
311/20/2025162
Ep 83 Diabetes: Short & Sweet
111 min
311/20/2025163
Ep 82 Anthrax: The Hardcore Spore
114 min
311/20/2025164
Ep 81 Chagas disease: The Reverse Triple Discovery
109 min
311/20/2025165
Ep 80 Dysentery loves a disaster
79 min
311/20/2025166
Ep 79 Hemophilia: A Hemorrhagic Disposition
92 min
311/20/2025167
Ep 78 Bartonella: Keep Calm and Carrión
87 min
311/20/2025168
Ep 77 Legionnaires' Disease: A Killer Mist
71 min
311/20/2025169
Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but'
75 min
311/20/2025170
Ep 75 Mercury: The cost of progress
82 min
311/20/2025171
COVID-19 Chapter 20: Looking forward by looking back
66 min
311/20/2025172
Ep 74 Naegleria fowleri: The "brain-eating amoeba"
65 min
311/20/2025173
COVID-19 Chapter 19: Your Stories
57 min
311/20/2025174
Ep 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands
86 min
311/20/2025175
COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics
61 min
311/20/2025176
Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor?
84 min
311/20/2025177
COVID-19 Chapter 17: Frontline Mental Health
68 min
311/20/2025178
Ep 71 Onchocerciasis/River Blindness: So many mysteries
73 min
311/20/2025179
COVID-19 Chapter 16: Disparities, Take 2
63 min
311/20/2025180
Ep 70 Henrietta Lacks: HeLa, There, & Everywhere
73 min
311/20/2025181
COVID-19 Chapter 15: Disease, Take 2
62 min
311/20/2025182
Ep 69 Huntington’s disease: Let’s talk frankly
85 min
311/20/2025183
Ep 68 Coccidioidomycosis: It’s never a spider bite
79 min
311/20/2025184
Ep 67 HPV: My wart be with you
87 min
311/20/2025185
Ep 66 The Outs and Ins of Organ Transplantation
101 min
311/20/2025186
Ep 65 Sweating Sickness: Ready, Sweat, Go!
79 min
311/20/2025187
Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything
79 min
311/20/2025188
COVID-19 Chapter 14: Virology, Take 2
62 min
311/20/2025189
Ep 63 Poison Ivy: It's Just Us
82 min
311/20/2025190
COVID-19 Chapter 13: Vaccines, Take 2
79 min
311/20/2025191
Ep 62 Leishmaniasis, Relationship Status: It's Complicated
80 min
311/20/2025192
COVID-19 Chapter 12: Control, Take 2
56 min
311/20/2025193
Ep 61 Typhoid: There's Something About Mary
87 min
311/20/2025194
Ep 60 Giving birth to "The Pill"
93 min
311/20/2025195
Ep 59 Thalidomide: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
92 min
311/20/2025196
Ep 58 Guinea worm: (Almost) Ancient History
69 min
311/20/2025197
Ep 57 Herpes: Stop the STIgma
85 min
311/20/2025198
Ep 56 Sickle Cell Disease: Invisible Illness, Enduring Strength
119 min
311/20/2025199
Ep 55 Rocky Mountain spotted fever: The tick must be destroyed!
107 min
311/20/2025200
Ep 54 Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine
83 min
311/20/2025201
Ep 53 Radiation: X-Ray Marks the Spot
113 min
311/20/2025202
Ep 52 Rinderpest: Moo Cows, Moo Problems
80 min
311/20/2025203
Ep 51 The Path of Most (Antibiotic) Resistance
110 min
311/20/2025204
Ep 50 Antibiotics: We owe it all to chemistry!
119 min
311/20/2025205
COVID-19 Ch 11: Modeling
81 min
311/20/2025206
Ep 49 Eastern Equine Encephalitis: Triple EEEk!
69 min
311/20/2025207
Ep 48 Botulism: Why are you the way you are?
87 min
311/20/2025208
COVID-19 Chapter 8: Disparities
58 min
311/20/2025209
COVID-19 Chapter 7: Spillover
61 min
311/20/2025210
Ep 47 Schistosomiasis: A Snail's Pace
89 min
311/20/2025211
COVID-19 Chapter 6: Mental Health
47 min
311/20/2025212
COVID-19 Chapter 5: Vaccines
43 min
311/20/2025213
COVID-19 Chapter 4: Epidemiology
59 min
311/20/2025214
COVID-19 Chapter 3: Control
54 min
311/20/2025215
COVID-19 Chapter 2: Disease
48 min
311/20/2025216
COVID-19 Chapter 1: Virology
58 min
311/20/2025217
Ep 46 Lactose Intolerance: Never trust a fart
60 min
311/20/2025218
Ep 45 Hepatitis C: Hepatiti?
74 min
311/20/2025219
Ep 44 Pertussis: Whoop Here It Is
83 min
311/20/2025220
Ep 43 M-m-m-my Coronaviruses
108 min
311/20/2025221
Ep 42 Dandy Dengue Fever
74 min
311/20/2025222
Ep 41 Ricin: A Bad Seed
75 min
311/20/2025223
Ep 40 Dancing Plague: Worst Dance Party Ever
79 min
311/20/2025224
Ep 39 Toxoplasmosis: Calling All Cats
69 min
311/20/2025225
Ep 38 Lead Poisoning: Heavy Metal Episode
72 min
311/20/2025226
Ep 37 E. coli (unless it's beets)
70 min
311/20/2025227
Ep 36 Shades of Syphilis
99 min
311/20/2025228
Ep 35 Lyme Disease: I'd like to check you for ticks
120 min
311/20/2025229
Ep 34 Cystic Fibrosis: Complete Somatic Rebellion
97 min
311/20/2025230
Ep 33 Chytrid: The Silent Forest
91 min
311/20/2025231
Ep 32 Ask the Erins
111 min
311/20/2025232
Ep 31 Giardia: Gerardia
74 min
311/20/2025233
Ep 30 Encephalitis Lethargica: Sleep Perchance to Dream (& Dream & Dream)
87 min
311/20/2025234
Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP
79 min
311/20/2025235
Ep 28 H. pylori: Don't try this at home
59 min
311/20/2025236
Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?
133 min
311/20/2025237
Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice
124 min
311/20/2025238
Ep 25 Put your hands together for: Gonorrhea!
58 min
311/20/2025239
Ep 24 Zika: Rumors and Rumours
65 min
311/20/2025240
Ep 23 Opening a can of Hookworms
71 min
311/20/2025241
Ep 22 Belladonna will dilate your mind: Crossover w/ IDOP
64 min
311/20/2025242
Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir
73 min
311/20/2025243
Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow
86 min
311/20/2025244
Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.
60 min
311/20/2025245
Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race
63 min
311/20/2025246
Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP
66 min
311/20/2025247
Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane
58 min
311/20/2025248
Ep 15 MRSA: Make Resistance Susceptible Again
63 min
311/20/2025249
Ep 14 Rabies: Don't dilute me, bro
64 min
311/20/2025250
Ep 13 Don't Tread on my Monkshood: Crossover w/ IDOP
63 min
311/20/2025251
Special Episode: HIV/AIDS
31 min
311/20/2025252
Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You
89 min
311/20/2025253
Ep 11 Ebola: The New Kid on the Block
61 min
311/20/2025254
Ep 10 Yellow Fever: Is there a Hamilton song about this?
58 min
311/20/2025255
Ep 5 Plague Part 1: The GMOAT
59 min
311/20/2025256
Ep 4 The Poop Show
49 min
311/20/2025257
Ep 3 Gnarlypox
57 min
311/20/2025258
Ep 2 Skin in the Game, Horse in the Race
54 min
311/20/2025259
Ep 1 Influenza Will Kill You
56 min
311/20/2025260
Episode 0 - TPWKY Season 1 Trailer
1 min
311/20/2025