Smallpox Part One: A Worldwide Scourge - with James Wilke

Any medical history podcast needs to spend some time talking about perhaps the worst and most culturally influential infectious disease we've known: smallpox. So we're going to do this in two parts, starting with an overview of how smallpox affected various areas of the world and truly shaped the whole of human civilization. It's also one of those rare stories that ends in triumph but that will wait for the second part on this topic. It's hard to overstate how intertwined ...