Episode #465
Skeptics with a K
Skeptic Media Limited
4.8 • 924 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alice asks if we're about to plunge into another global pandemic with Hantavirus. Meanwhile, Marsh visits the beautiful Italian city of Florence... and Mike goes to Bristol.
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, the 21st of May, 26, and you are listening to Skeptics with |
| 0:12.4 | a K80 podcast for science, reason, and critical thinking. |
| 0:16.1 | Skeptics with a K is produced by skeptic media in association with the Merseyside |
| 0:20.2 | Skeptic Society, a non-profit organization for the promotion of scientific skepticism on Merseyside, Iran, UK and internationally. I'm your host, Mike Hall. With me today is Marsh. Hello. And Alice. Hello. And what have we got coming up today? What are we talking about today? I'm going to be talking about hantavirus. |
| 0:38.1 | Hanter virus, the rat thing. |
| 0:39.5 | The rat thing. |
| 0:40.0 | I've had so many people asking me about the rat thing. |
| 0:42.1 | Well, I know. It feels like we've got to talk about it. |
| 0:44.0 | It's, and I'm the one to talk about it. It's always going to be you. I was never going to talk about that. I did Zika virus. |
| 0:48.8 | I was the one who did Zika virus. |
| 0:50.6 | But we are recording this quite early, |
| 0:53.2 | so it is going to be quite out of date by the time. |
| 0:55.6 | By the time this goes up, so bear with us. |
| 0:58.0 | You're going to be quite out of date by the time. |
| 0:55.6 | By the time this goes up, so bear with us. |
| 0:58.0 | You're going to spend the whole time saying, it's not going to become the next pandemic, |
| 1:01.3 | and by the time we air this, a million people will be dead. |
| 1:04.6 | In another lockdown, it will be an absolute disgrace. |
| 1:07.7 | Well, before we get to you taking us through the Hunter Virus, I was recently on a holiday in Italy. |
| 1:13.0 | I went to Florence. |
| 1:14.9 | Right? |
| 1:15.6 | Florence was, when we went to Italy, we did like a little tour up the boot. |
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