Ep 053 Superman, Luke Skywalker, King Leonidas, Captain America, Charles Calisher, PhD.

We can’t seem to escape news of the latest disease outbreak, no matter which decade we’re inhabiting. MERS, SARS, Covid-19, Spanish Flu, Zika, plague, typhoid, or leprosy for humans. In poultry parlance, we have Marek’s, Newcastle, Avian Pox…and the list goes on. There’s always something floating around that affects both humans and non-human animals, and sometimes it’s kind of terrifying. When humans feel scared of something we feel unprepared to handle, throughout history w...