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Incubation Season 2 begins October 17th. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Speaker 1:Right now. Inside your body, there are trillions of viruses. Some keep you healthy, some make you sick. A few of them might kill you.
Speaker 2:Of course, it sends your chills in your vetebrae because the consequences are going to be very disastrous.
Speaker 1:From Pushkin Industries and Ruby Studio at iHeartMedia, Incubation is a podcast about how viruses attack people and how people fight back. I'm Jacob Goldstein. This season, we'll hear what Louis Pasteur had to go through to invent the rabies vaccine. How do you harvest the saliva from a rabid dog really carefully?
Speaker 3:Right?
Speaker 1:We'll talk to a scientist who is part of the team that first isolated HIV.
Speaker 3:We have something, we have something, we think we have something.
Speaker 1:And we'll hear the story of the lucky breaks that helped us understand that viruses can cause cancer. I was floored. I couldn't believe it. It's a season full of extraordinary viruses and heroic nerds.
Speaker 3:The first sell For Christ's sake, somebody's on his side, I'll tell you.
Speaker 1:Starting October seventeenth, will drop a new episode every Thursday. Incubation is available on the iHeartRadio app or wherever it's totally cool and a little bit strange.
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Incubation
Pushkin Industries · Tech & Science · English
Incubation is a show about how viruses attack people – and how people fight back. This season, we talk to a scientist who fought the spread of Ebola while risking his life. We learn how a ubiquitous virus causes cancer and multiple sclerosis. And we hear how a mosquito-borne virus helped defend an e
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