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episode Archive

Coming in July, we’re looking back at the moments that changed the course of infectious disease.

From one of the most successful parasite eradication campaigns in history to the military’s long battle against epidemics and the first vaccine, we’ll explore the turning points that transformed how humanity fights disease. These are the stories of ideas that reshaped medicine, lives that were saved because someone questioned what everyone else accepted, and discoveries whose impact is still unfolding today.

At the end of the month, we’ll step back into the Prohibition era for an evening at the speakeasy, where medicine looked very different—and many of the advances we now take for granted were still just beyond the horizon.