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Sickboy

ZIKA VIRUS ALERT!

Sickboy

CBC

Society & Culture

4.8524 Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week on Sickboy the fellas sit down with Kalyn who was once infected with the horrifying and totally dangerous and deadly ZIKA VIRUS! Wait... Zika? Like... the mosquito/sexually transmitted virus Zika? Where you get a rash and some achy joints? And gotta lay down for a day or two? YEAH THAT ZIKA! Oh, and by the way it definitely ain't as bad as you think unless you're looking to get pregnant. In that case DO NOT GET ZIKA!

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.5

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0:18.8

about their writing, inspirations, and lives.

0:22.8

You'll get to see the world through the eyes of your favorite writers, and they might even

0:26.6

take you to outer space too. Bookends with Matea Roach is available now wherever you get your podcasts.

0:34.3

This is a CBC podcast.

0:39.3

Welcome to Sick Boy, a podcast where we talk about what it's like to be sick.

0:43.3

This week's guest is Kalin.

0:45.1

She had the Zika virus.

0:46.9

Let's talk about it.

0:53.2

The likes are hot.

0:57.8

Check, check.

0:59.6

Oh, my voice is doing spectacular.

1:02.0

Mine is,

1:02.8

mine is feeling good this morning.

1:04.7

Yeah, this morning I woke up and I was like, I was like,

1:07.3

I got in the shower and I was like, ha ha ha ha ha.

1:12.6

So you, you are, we were just talking about this before the mics came on that what we're about to talk about today did ravage the news like crazy.

1:22.7

And before we get into it, I want to read something that is a little bit different, but I feel kind of

1:30.1

in the same vein as what we're going to dive into today. So our good friend Mark Frank,

1:36.4

who lives over in London, he tweeted this article the other day from the BBC News. And the headline

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