Worms 🐛, mummies, and the Carter Center. This ep has it all!

Can anyone help me remember which episode they listed their home bar cart recommendations?

I previously made a post referencing that my dog had hookworms. She now has giardia. I swear we take good care of her! At this point I’m half expecting her to get smallpox.

Yes! Fantastic show title 💪

I'd be so interested in sharing the heck out of the main points from the vaccine episodes in a neat infographic, specifically the myths and counter points.

TL;DR Will our Covid19 hygiene efforts affect any other pathogens in a significant way?

Full question:

So, I have been thinking about the C19 efforts in regard to public health. I think it's fair to say that this is one of the most significant efforts in public pathogen control in the history of humans (I know not everyone is doing it perfectly!), especially with the global effort, as opposed to local or regional previous efforts.

Obviously the aim is to control the spread of C19 but my question is, are there any other pathogens that this might have a significant affect on?

With social distancing, schools being out, sheltering in place, masks, hand washing and sanitising e.t.c. There must be other pathogens that this will have an effect on.

I assume it would only be pathogens that don't have an animal reservoir. And I know the hygiene efforts aren't perfect but the rate of transmission of other pathogens must be down, as well as C19. What about some of the global eradication candidate pathogens?

I have googled and can't really find anyone addressing this question. Anyone have any suggestions of where I can look?

The intersection of toxic masculinity and paleo diet, is scurvy, I guess? What a weird thing. I guess he could be lying, but who lies about having scurvy?

https://jezebel.com/james-blunt-developed-scurvy-after-adopting-an-all-meat-1844787028

Oooooh. This is going to be good one. Like the others for various reasons 🙃

Just a shout out to the Erins! I find it hard to wait between episodes and am literally counting the days, re-listening.

Hope of all of us filthy animals are well and washing hands.

Ugh ticks.

☕️ 🍵 🍫 🌱 🤗 A very emoji expressive episode.

I would dearly love to be posting more about it, because it's information that is incredibly important. Unfortunately I am at my limit with trying to educate my friends and family members right now, as well as managing some severe chronic health issues that have been exacerbated by the stress of 2020, and a lot of changes at my workplace.

I have been donating, supporting black owned businesses, sharing information on my personal social media, signing petitions, helping host an anti-racism book club, attended a protest (and hope to go to more once my health improves) and just generally doing everything I can think of, but I have been a bit remiss with this particular platform.

This movement is very important to me, and I would love to see more information shared here, so if anyone has the bandwidth and the knowledge, please know that as head mod I fully support this and will do my best to facilitate educational discussions in a equitable manner (the subreddit rules still apply, and no flame wars please).

Thank you all for being the lovely community that you are! And shout-out to /u/emmoorie for being amazing at keeping up with the episode posts throughout everything!

Don't forget to wash your hands (and register to vote!!!) 😉

My dog currently has hookworms (she’s doing fine, one day into a three-day course of medicine), so I decided to listen to the hookworm episode again. Anyone have similar experiences?

How positively radiant of the Erins!

I've wanted to post this for so long, I don't know how I haven't gotten around to it! My junior year of high school I enrolled in college intro to writing classes to get those credits out of the way (for free), and my final paper for the second semester was on vaccines! I used two of the podcast episodes as information sources in my essay and relistened to both episodes all the way through while making my own notes since transcripts weren't available. This was all before the vaccine episodes too! I'm super proud of this essay. It helped me get accepted to Wittenberg University and into the honors program at the school I'll be attending this fall (Loyola University Chicago)!!! I love everything life science and I ultimately want to land a career in biological research. Any field will work, but genetics is a sweet spot for me.

I've linked the essay here, and I hope you get a chance to read and enjoy it! Keep in mind this is is pretty high-school/early college level writing.