It’s horror movie night, but Heather can’t stop seeing infectious disease in the monsters.
Heather is joined by her friend Valerie to explore the real biology behind some of horror’s most enduring fears: tuberculosis and vampire lore, rabies and werewolves, zombies as outbreak epidemiology, neurological disease and possession, and the strange biology behind The Last of Us, The Thing, and Alien.
Plus, Valerie plays the hilarious Horror Movie or Medical Literature? and discovers that when it comes to horror, evolution has had a considerable head start.
So grab a drink, pick a movie, and remember the most important public-health lesson horror has apparently failed to teach us: stop hiding bites.
Annotated citations and episode recipes available in the companion blog post.
Podden och tillhörande omslagsbild på den här sidan tillhör
Infectious Dose. Innehållet i podden är skapat av Infectious Dose och inte av,
eller tillsammans med, Poddtoppen.
