79) Deadliest Pandemics in Human History

In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Nick & Brandon are here to let you know that things could definitely be worse. In this episode, Brandon has the ranking of the Deadliest Pandemic Outbreaks in Human History, and Nick tries to guess the Top 5. PLUS...the symptoms and treatments of the sick, pandemic responses over the centuries, how pandemic diseases originate, biological warfare during the Middle Ages, scientific beliefs in pre-modern times, launching dead bodies with a catapult, the plague doctor, how pandemics impact human culture, the dancing pandemic, blaming countries for pandemics, living conditions before modern medicine, what pandemic prevails to this day (other than COVID-19), eating "bush meat", Brandon's bad Italian accent, Nick can't stop yawning, Cameroon, hot blood, Kevin Bacon, the true unsung heroes in history, burying bodies, the return of peanut butter jokes, death by stench, and MUCH more. -------------------------------------- Help improve our show and let us know what types of Top 10ish Lists you want to hear in the future; take our quick 2-minute Listener Survey at https://www.10ishPod.com/Survey -------------------------------------- 10ish Podcast Theme Music: Hackbeat by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 -------------------------------------- Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices