The Zoonotic B-List
Nine stories of disease you've never heard of and what you can learn from them. In Spring of 2024, a group of UCLA undergraduate Human Biology and Society majors—HBS majors—set out to explore the B-list of diseases. But they nonetheless prevailed and together they created this amazing series stories about a B-list of zoonotic diseases, from Brucellosis to Virulent Newcastle Disease. Together, they explored a series of diseases you've never heard of and asked: what can we learn from them?
The Zoonotic B-List
108 News: Toxoplasmosis!
Our podcast takes the form of a news broadcast that covers a real outbreak of toxoplasmosis, the most common parasitic disease in the world, that occurred in a small
village in Brazil in 2001. A toxoplasmosis expert and a woman who had been infected
share their knowledge on this perplexing disease.
Produced by Rebeca Lopez-Rosas, Derek Lance and Amy Shimizu.
These podcast episodes were created by members of the 2024 Spring Capstone course in the Human Biology and Society major at UCLA's Institute for Society and Genetics (https://socgen.ucla.edu/). The faculty sponsor is Christopher Kelty. For questions or concerns email ckelty@ucla.edu. For more information about any of these diseases please consult the US Centers for Disease Control (https://www.cdc.gov/) .