Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 6: Inside the World of Botulism
There’s two ways you die from botulism. One is that you just can’t breathe and you suffocate to death. And the other is a cardiac event. So people are all worried about the breathing part and...
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 5: Beyond Rats and Fleas: The Real Story of the Black Plague
You have human migration, you have trade links and I mean, if you also add to that military campaigns that were happening around the same time, you have several wars that were going on in different...
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 4: Ebola: Same Virus, New Rules
In the earliest days of the 2014 Ebola Zaire outbreak, I actually wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post and said, wake up world. This virus is different now. It’s gonna spread. And it’s...
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 3: The Spanish Flu: A Pandemic the World Chose to Forget
There are plenty of official records and they can give you all the information you need on how many people died, how many were infected, though even those statistics are problematic at best....
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 2: The Anthrax Attacks, 25 Years Later
“It was a mystery. We absolutely had no idea why this gentleman had acquired anthrax” — Dr. Paul Keim...
Countermeasures Season 4 Episode 1: The Third Wave of the Opioid Crisis
“[Fentanyl] was really a game changer. By far, that amplified the drug overdose deaths that we saw from 2015 all the way up through 2020. And then into our peak year of 2022, when we had more...