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Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Sawbones: Hantavirus, Part 2

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

History, Comedy, Sawbones, Health & Fitness, Medical History, Medicine

4.815.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The recent outbreak of human-communicable Hantavirus on a cruise ship continues to change rapidly and the U.S. continues to lag behind other nations in its response. This week on Sawbones, an update on the situation and some thoughts about the future of disease management in a country that seems uninterested in doing so. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ First Nations Development Institute: https://www.firstnations.org/

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0:00.0

Sawbones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.

0:07.2

It's for fun.

0:08.7

Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?

0:14.2

We think you've earned it.

0:15.8

Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.

0:22.6

You're worth it.

0:25.9

All right.

0:27.5

Tommy is about some books.

0:30.6

One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its a window blasted out

0:52.0

Pushed on through the broken glass And had ourselves, I look around the medicines, the medicines that ask mellum for the mouth.

1:04.6

Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a marital tour of Miss Scott and Benison.

1:09.7

I'm your co-host, Justin McRoy. And I'm Sydney McRRoy. Oh, you got it right under the wire, Sid, push that little. Sydney has had this timer on our table. Like, every Sawbones we've recorded for, I mean, 13 or many years. Yeah, it's a physical timer. To try to keep us on track. Well, if I could see the little recording thing, but I can't see it.

1:49.1

Okay. I don't need another member of my family to go on my case about my tabs. All right. There's so much stuff on the screen all the time. I do. I have the, it's notably kind of a nightmare. It's hard to record in here, like when you're not in here and I'm recording because things start making noise and I never know what things are making noise and I don't know what things I can close. A lot of them are my experiments too. They have nothing to do with

1:53.9

podcasting. A lot of it has to do with my life extension experiments, some of my

1:59.9

nanoparticle stuff.

2:02.0

You know, I'm doing a lot of really exciting work here in the lab.

2:06.2

It's mainly 3D printing.

2:08.9

Justin, we have an update.

2:11.4

Yes, we wanted to talk about Hantavirus.

2:15.6

It was such a swiftly evolving situation that, like, our last episode was outdated almost as soon as we recorded it.

2:24.7

So this one we are recording just to, like, timestamp it here at 12.50 p.m. on a Monday.

2:32.9

So this is where we're at. Monday, May 18th.

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