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Planning to hit up your local rave? You may want to hold off on dropping the beat until you listen to this week's episode. We discuss the emergence of monkeypox in non endemic areas and why Marshmallow, Skrillex, and Deadmau5 may be responsible. 

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 On this episode we cover why that possum is really chasing it's tail, if you should invite those pesky raccoons into your home for some tea, and ponder just what is the best name for a Swedish metal band. That's right the deadliest disease on earth and old Yeller's demise this week we discuss rabies.

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What happens when anti-vaxxers, a promiscuous virus, and maybe some infected rodents get together? A new episode of Viral Load Podcast, of course. Also, a new variant of SARS-CoV-2.
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• https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s1126-B11-529-omicron.html
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• https://www.who.int/news/item/28-11-2021-update-on-omicron
• https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/12/05/1059828993/data-vaccine-misinformation-trump-counties-covid-death-rate

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Why would a rare tropical disease outbreak emerge in America’s heartland? Get your crystals out and make sure your chakras are aligned, because Jupiter is in retrograde and Viral Load is on the case!

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• https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/23/health/aromatherapy-melioidosis-mystery/index.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/22/business/walmart-room-spray-recall-bacteria/index.html
• https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/2021/han00444.asp
• https://www.cdc.gov/melioidosis/index.html
• https://journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10.1128/CMR.18.2.383-416.2005

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We are back from the grave for this halloween episode. On the 2 year anniversary of Viral Load we dive into the wonderful world of monkeypox. Tune in to find out why you should care about this boil inducing disease. And whatever you do this hallows eve don't pet prairie dogs!

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• https://www.statnews.com/2021/07/20/more-than-200-people-in-u-s-being-monitored-for-possible-monkeypox-exposure-cdc-says/
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• https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/monkeypox
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• https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/outbreak.html
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5857192/

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"The Variants They Are A-Changin' " - Bob Dylan & SARS-CoV-2. What happens when an RNA virus meets an unevenly vaccinated planet? Tune in to our latest COVID-19 episode to find out! 
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• https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-info.html 
• https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-breakthrough-delta-variant.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20210811&instance_id=37681&nl=updates-from-the-newsroom®i_id=117681300&segment_id=65980&te=1&user_id=07cbd203bdf60faa1d6adeaea6d6acf5
• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/12/science/covid-delta-breakthrough.html
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-unusual-lambda-variant-is-rapidly-spreading-in-south-america-heres-what-we-know
• https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/03/health/unvaccinated-variant-factories/index.html
• https://www.who.int/en/activities/tracking-SARS-CoV-2-variants/
• https://www.nytimes.com/article/covid-breakthrough-delta-variant.html?campaign_id=190&emc=edit_ufn_20210811&instance_id=37681&nl=updates-from-the-newsroom®i_id=117681300&segment_id=65980&te=1&user_id=07cbd203bdf60faa1d6adeaea6d6acf5
• https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/12/health/breakthrough-infection-covid-vaccine-misleading/index.html
• https://slate.com/technology/2021/08/delta-variant-covid-masks-vaccines-boosters.html
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• https://www.kut.org/texasstandard/2021-07-20/health-experts-warn-a-potential-tsunami-of-covid-cases-is-on-the-horizon
• https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/27/explainer-what-is-the-lambda-coronavirus-variant
• https://www.vaccinestoday.eu/stories/what-is-r0/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVIGhz3uwuQ
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha6yUxze1vk

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Move over COVID, there’s a new sheriff in town. While the COVID-19 continues to garner international attention, strains of avian influenza (“bird flu”) are lurking - ready to spark the next pandemic. Is BIRD-FLU-22 next?
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• https://scitechdaily.com/global-spread-of-the-highly-pathogenic-h5n8-avian-influenza-virus-is-a-serious-public-health-concern/
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• https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/09/07/549069924/deadly-bird-flu-in-china-evolves-spreads-to-new-regions 
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Leprosy probably brings to mind skin falling from the bone and people cast away into quarantined colonies. It is among the most stigmatized diseases in history, that I can think of. In this episode, we cover the past, present, and future of this ancient foe.
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• https://www.who.int/health-topics/leprosy#tab=tab_1
• https://www.seeker.com/where-do-leper-colonies-still-exist-2015107873.html
• https://www.history.com/news/leprosy-colonies-us-quarantine#:~:text=Kalaupapa%20was%20one%20of%20a,by%20the%20far%20the%20largest. 
• https://www.newbedfordguide.com/massachusetts-leper-colony-penikese-frank-parker/2019/08/28 
• https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/index.html
• https://www.livescience.com/56275-strange-facts-about-leprosy.html
• https://www.livescience.com/56426-leprosy-symptoms-treatment.html
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• https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/symptoms/index.html
• https://www.livescience.com/51665-florida-leprosy-cases-armadillos.html
• https://www.livescience.com/56825-red-squirrels-harbor-leprosy-causing-bacteria.html
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/armadillos-leprosy-humans/
• https://www.livescience.com/52792-armadillos-leprosy-bacteria-spreading-southern-us.html
• http://web.stanford.edu/group/parasites/ParaSites2005/Leprosy/history.htm

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The search continues for the origins of the virus that causes COVID-19—and the pathway that it took to leap from animals to humans, resulting in 129 million infections and more than 2.8 million deaths....and counting. The World Health Organization recently released a report from a team of international researchers that traveled to China to investigate four possible origin scenarios. Tune in to find out what this 300-page monster has to tell us. Trigger alert: there will be bats.

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Brett and Andy dive into the hot topics in the world of diseases for this viral particle (minisode). In an homage to the My Favorite Murder pod, each host chooses a recent disease story and presents without the other knowing what the subject matter will be. Tune in to find out the terrifying facts the guys uncovered this week.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/19/979314118/next-pandemic-scientists-fear-another-coronavirus-could-jump-from-animals-to-hum
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https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/03/15/977527808/who-points-to-wildlife-farms-in-southwest-china-as-likely-source-of-pandemic