LeechFest Podcast
1) Malaria: The Empire Strikes Back | LeechFest Ep 46
This month we're talking about malaria! This episode is quite similar to our early ones, in that we take a disease, talk about its pathology/ treatment, the role it has played in history, and then loo...Show More
2) Assassinations: Leftist Infighting | LeechFest Ep 45 Part 2
This is the second part of our episode about assassinations! This episode turned out very leftism-centric, with Salem covering Trotsky and Mia going over the assassination of Kim Jong Nam. There is a ...Show More
3) Assassinations: The Russian Devil | LeechFest Ep 45 Part 1
Most often on this podcast we talk about people's attempts to preserve and improve health and wellbeing. This month, however, we are switching gears as we embark on a two parter covering three histori...Show More
4) Stockholm Syndrome | LeechFest Ep 44
In this month's episode we tackle the concept of Stockholm Syndrome as follows: Mia talks about the original bank heist which led to the coinage of the term, and Salem follows up with another very fam...Show More
5) Bacteria? Eating MY Flesh? | LeechFest Ep 43
A short and sweet episode for you this month- no mucking about with this one. We discuss flesh-eating bacteria, every tabloid's favourite germ to fear monger about. Salem covers the medical and biomed...Show More
6) Paws, Pills and Progress: Animal Models in Research | LeechFest Ep 42
This month's episode focuses on the history of the use of animals in medical science. We start out with an overview of currently available study models, and a short discussion of why animal models rem...Show More
7) Spookysode 4: I Want To Believe | LeechFest Ep 41
In this year's second Spookysode, we discuss the Dyatlov Pass incident, which refers to the mysterious death of nine experienced hikers in the Ural Mountains in 1959, as well as the phenomenon of alie...Show More
8) Spookysode 3: Cursed Content and Real Curses | LeechFest Ep 40
We are back just in time for Halloween with a spooky, spooky episode. This year, we've got for you the story of Karl Tänzler, who may be our least favourite scientist, and that of King Tut's curse. En...Show More
9) Typhoid: Wash Your Dang Hands | LeechFest Ep 39
In this episode we discuss typhoid fever and our new favourite scrappy lady: Typhoid Mary. We talk about the bacteria and why it's a lame pathogen, as well as it's mechanism of pathogenicity and infec...Show More
10) Bugs as Drugs | LeechFest Ep 38
In this episode we discuss the use of bugs (insects, arthropods, and the like) in medicine and medical research. Specifically, Mia serves us an overview of historical medical treatments using insect p...Show More