Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play

At the turn of the 20th century, a severe burn was often a death sentence. Today, that is no longer the case. Over the past eighty years, burn care has undergone a profound transformation thanks to crucial advances across diverse areas of medicine, such as skin grafting, antisept ...  Show more

Burns have been a part of the human experience since our hominin relatives began controlling fire 1.5 million years ago. Until very recently, we’ve been limited in our ability to manage burn wounds with any success, having instead to rely on our body’s innate healing responses. I ...  Show more

In this episode I cover influenza.

If you want to follow along with written notes on influenza go to https://zerotofinals.com/medicine/infectiousdisease/influenza/ or find the infectious dise ...

The U.S. is grappling with a recently discovered outbreak of avian influenza in dairy cows, driven by the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus. It's the first instance that the bird flu virus has been detected in US cattle. How concerned should we be about drinking milk or even eating ch ...  Show more

An update on the current bird flu outbreak: it’s still infecting wild birds, mammals and now several farmworkers in the United States. The virus does not appear to be transmitted between humans, but can we prevent further spread? And what are public health officials doing to cont ...  Show more

This episode covers influenza.

Written notes can be found at https://zerotofinals.com/medicine/infectiousdisease/influenza/ or in the infectious diseases section of the 2nd edition of the Zer ...