From 5000 B.C. to the 1889 “Russian Flu.” Including the role of Christopher Columbus, and the arrival of the flu in the Americas. Early theories of the causes of flu, and early flu treatments. 17 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

Where did smallpox come from? How does it infect? What is chickenpox? What is shingles? Timeline of smallpox outbreaks. The end of smallpox. Then again, is it really gone? 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

First, second, and third cholera epidemics. In India, Europe, Russia, and the Americas. What is cholera & how does it work? Its symptoms. Current situation. Miasma, germ theory and the importance of the epidemiological work of John Snow’s observations of the Broad Street epidemic of 1854. 15 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] reading "Cholera epidemics from 1817. Ep. 14"

The Russian Plague of 1770 & the Plague Riots. the true and inspiring story of the English village of Eyam. More science about the bubonic plague. Ring Around the Rosie? Three types of bubonic plague. A bubonic plague vaccine? 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

Sweating sickness, typhus, lots more bubonic plague including the “Great Plague.” The Great Fire of London. 17 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

Generally brought to North America from Europeans. Yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, chickenpox, malaria, diptheria. Disease outbreaks among Native Americans. Timeline of outbreaks and descriptions. 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

What are retroviruses? Adeno-associated virus gene therapy (Duchenne muscular dystrophy example). 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

More characteristics of viruses. Origins of viruses. Are they alive? How do viruses replicate (“life cycle”)? 12 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

What’s a virus? What types are there? How do they make us sick? How were they discovered? Viruses are NOT inherently bad? What are phages and what is phage therapy? 20 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link to episode

Devastation from smallpox brought by Europeans. It’s effect on the Aztec Empire. Firsthand accounts. Smallpox symptoms. The origin of smallpox. The famous story of Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine, but who was Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Also the Cocoliztli Epidemic. 16 min Pandemics & Pathogens Past & Present [email protected] @chemsmithInstagram @timcsmith1961 Direct Link toContinue reading "Pandemics in Mexico in the 1500’s. Ep. 7"