Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play

For the entirety of our species’ history, our approach to cancer has largely been to react, to design new therapies and better combinations of treatments. This energy has certainly been well-spent, but what if we didn’t have to use treatment at all? Or what if we could minimize t ...  Show more

A century and a half ago, the list of effective cancer treatments was essentially a single entry: surgery. Today, in 2026, you’d need pages to contain the number of treatments available, and multiple notebooks to delineate all of the various therapies currently in development. It ...  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 ...