Ep. 83: Zoonotic diseases

We’re finally getting around to talking about animal ailments that are a real bad time when transferred to humans! Plus, CoRri answers Mark’s tales of British censorship from last week with the story of America’s Hays Code. Highlights:[0:00] CoRri tells Mark how the film industry avoided government censorship in the early 20th century [31:30] Mark is an outdoorsmen all of a sudden, which leads to a discussion of favorite movie sword fights [44:50] Mark and CoRri respond differently to the threat of covid, book club is coming, and we’re gonna be on Dead & Lovely! [53:59] Mark updates CoRri on a crime that occurred when she was in England [58:00] A long chat about the Jimmy Savile documentary that hit Netflix last week [68:30] What we watched! [92:50] Zoonotic diseases! Stuff we referenced: Early Hollywood and the Hays Code | ACMI: Your museum of screen culture Remembering Hollywood’s Hays Code, 40 Years On : NPR Don’ts and Be Carefuls (1927) BFI Screenonline: The Hays Code Failure of the Milwaukee Protocol in a Child With Rabies | Clinical Infectious Diseases | Oxford Academic Milwaukee_protocol.pdf Comparing clinical protocols for the treatment of human rabies: the Milwaukee protocol and the Brazilian protocol (Recife) – PMC No Rabies Treatment After All: Failure of the Milwaukee Protocol The Pandora Report Infection | Leptospirosis | CDC Leptospirosis fact sheet – Fact sheets Leptospirosis in Humans – PMC Signs and Symptoms | Leptospirosis | CDC Transmission | Hantavirus | DHCPP | CDC What’s ‘Bat Soup,’ and Did It Cause the New Coronavirus?