Summary A Consumption Christmas Carol retells Dickens’ ghost story through the real epidemic that haunted Victorian London: tuberculosis. In this holiday edition of Outbreak After Dark, we move through past, present, and future to explore how TB was misunderstood, romanticized, and weaponized by inequality—before it was finally revealed as an airborne bacterial disease that still kills more than a million people each year. This episode blends gothic storytelling with real inf

A neurologist lectures on encephalitis lethargica—the real “sleepy sickness”—until science and nightmare blur in this Month of the Macabre episode from Infectious Dose.

The R@VN: Requiem for the Antivaxxers — a dark reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, where a vaccine denier’s smart-home AI bears witness to his paralysis from polio. A gothic warning about science denial in the age of technology.

Did a hallucinogenic fungus fuel the Salem witch trials? This Infectious Dose episode explores the ergotism theory—and why the truth remains uncertain.

A deadly pneumonia outbreak strikes a downtown hotel. No clear cause. No time to lose. Step into a 1970s public health mystery in this Halloween special: Pneumonia Noir.