Ep 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 topics we’ve taken on yet: epilepsy. In this episode, we navigate the constantly ...
7 Helmi 20231h 38min
Ep 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 listeners know, not all respiratory viruses are the same, and it’s oft...
24 Tammi 20231h 30min
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Sitting Ducks; Fowl PlayOver five years ago, on October 31, 2017, the very first episode of This Podcast Will Kill You premiered, an action-packed (and mildly disorganized) t...
22 Marras 20221h 32min
Ep 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 well-worth the wait. Although Chikungunya virus is often lumpe...
8 Marras 20221h 21min
Ep 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 case. For much of history, diseases carried with them a deeper meaning ...
25 Loka 20221h 17min
Ep 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 certain people get sick while others don’t, or why we know little about some diseas...
11 Loka 20221h 39min
Ep 105 Down in the Mumps
We’ve covered measles, we’ve taken on rubella, and now we’re finishing up the classic MMR vaccine by exploring the other M: mumps. To some listeners, mumps may be a painful childhood memory while to o...
13 Syys 20221h 17min
