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1104 Medical Maladies Of Movie Monsters

Season 11, Ep. 4

In this spooky episode, Dr's J and Santhosh debate some common problems for movie monsters and their medical origins. along the way, they cover werewolves, were fleas, werewolf herpes, latent viruses, the physiology of transformation, tumorigenic viruses, Tasmanian devils, lycanthropy vaccines, toxoplasma and wolf behavior, vampire blood diets, deceased kidney disorders, vampire diarrhea, vitamin deficiencies, insect irritation, frankenstein arrythmias and graft diseases and more! So sit back and relax and we unearth the undead diagnositc manual!


Further Reading

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0476-8#Sec14

https://www.sciencealert.com/something-strange-happens-to-wolves-infected-by-an-infamous-mind-altering-parasite

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1291962/pdf/jrsocmed00154-0049.pdf


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