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Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map
Mar 07, 2023For many of us, our encounters with listeria may not go beyond reading the occasional headline about an outbreak from contaminated hot dogs or listening to our doctor advise us to avoid certain foods ...
Special Episode: Sarah Everts & The Joy of Sweat
Feb 28, 2023You may be wondering if there’s a typo in this week’s TPWKY book club selection - The Joy of Sweat? Are we supposed to find joy in this secretion? Shouldn’t it be The Inconvenience of Sweat? Some of y...
Ep 113 Vitamin D: The D stands for drama
Feb 21, 2023There is no shortage of ailments that vitamin D has been claimed to prevent or cure - various types of cancers, heart disease, COVID-19, diabetes, an assortment of autoimmune conditions, just to name ...
Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless
Feb 14, 2023What do you get when you combine a love of reading with an interest in biology/public health/medical history and a background in podcasting? The TPWKY book club, of course! This season’s miniseries of...
Ep 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm
Feb 07, 2023Only 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 ...
Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?
Jan 24, 2023We’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...
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play
Nov 22, 2022Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Sitting Ducks; 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 mildly disorganized) ...
Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)
Nov 08, 2022Somehow 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...
Ep 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating
Oct 25, 2022Although 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 ...
Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess
Oct 11, 2022Over 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...