Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from kissing a raven. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Ragnar raven in a lovely chatty and affectionate mood. | Raven Talking | TikTok Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things Lyrics | Genius Lyrics Elton John - Rocket Man (Official Music Video) - YouTube Salmonella ravens - Google Scholar Salmonella in Sheep in Iceland - PMC Prevalence, Characterization and Antibiotic Resistance of Salmonella Isolates in Large Corvid Species of Europe and Nort...
Mar 10, 2025•12 min•Ep 743•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of letting a parrot stir you coffee with a spoon every day. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Pickle the barista birb loves to stir my coffee every morning : r/aww Salmonella | Cornell Wildlife Health Lab Psittacosis (Ornithosis) fact sheet Human Salmonellosis Outbreak Linked to Salmonella Typhimurium Epidemic in Wild Songbirds, United States, 2020–2021 - Volume 29, Number 11—November 2023 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC...
Mar 07, 2025•13 min•Ep 742•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from using a dishwasher to wash a bird feeder. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Infectious Diseases of Garden Birds - Minimising the Risks - UFAW Outdoor Cleaning Products | Jeyes Fluid Method to Evaluate Factors Influencing the Microbial Reduction in Domestic Dishwashers | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic Jeyes Fluid - Wikipedia John Jeyes - Wikipedia p-Chlorocresol - Wikipedia...
Mar 05, 2025•13 min•Ep 741•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by using a “snot sucker” with ones mouth. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ NoseFrida the SnotSucker – Frida | The fuss stops here. NoseFrida: Winter Colds and Baby’s Snot: A Better Way to Clear It Out • ItsaBelly Doulas Amazon.com : BABY-VAC Clinically Tested Baby Nasal Aspirator - Vacuum-Powered Nose Sucker with Suction Head & Cleaning Brush for Safe and Gentle Relief : Baby Bathing Products : Baby Comparing nasal suction devices i...
Mar 03, 2025•15 min•Ep 740•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from a toddler placing chicken nuggets in their shoes. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 SJ 🥥🌴💙 (@sjmcgriff)’s video of Kids TikTok Videos | TikTok Pitted keratolysis: an infective cause of foot odour - PMC Why Do Feet Stink? (for Kids) | Nemours KidsHealth...
Feb 28, 2025•13 min•Ep 739•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from Girl Scout Cookies Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Girl Scouts of the USA Danger in the Dough: Unveiling the Toxic Contaminants in Girl Scout Cookies - GMOScience Questions and Answers on Glyphosate | FDA...
Feb 26, 2025•18 min•Ep 738•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using weekly laundered bath towel to dry hands after using the bathroom and before preparing food. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Why you probably aren’t washing your towels often enough Bacterial Occurrence in Kitchen Hand Towels A Study of Bacterial Contaminants of Cloth and Paper Towels Quantifying the Effect of Hand Wash Duration, Soap Use, Ground Beef Debris, and Drying Methods on the Removal of Enterobacter aerogene...
Feb 24, 2025•9 min•Ep 737•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using water from a bedside glass to refill a humidifier. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Molecular analysis of single room humidifier bacteriology - ScienceDirect Severe neonatal legionellosis associated with use of home humidifiers – A case report - ScienceDirect Legionella - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics A review of legionnaires’ disease and public water systems – Scientific considerations, uncertainties and recomme...
Feb 21, 2025•9 min•Ep 736•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of making riceballs in an armpit. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Human sweat-infused rice balls fashioned in the armpits of cute Japanese girls become unlikely culinary hit, at a price | South China Morning Post Sweat and Sebum Preferences of the Human Skin Microbiota | Microbiology Spectrum The Microbiota of the Human Skin | SpringerLink The effect of habitual and experimental antiperspirant and deodorant product use on the...
Feb 19, 2025•10 min•Ep 735•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of sun drying onions, ginger and garlic for 4 days. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Study the effect of sun, oven and microwave drying on quality of onion slices - ScienceDirect Effect of Drying Characteristics of Garlic Salmonella survival during thermal dehydration of fresh garlic and storage of dehydrated garlic products - PubMed Survival of common foodborne pathogens on dates, sundried tomatoes, and dried pluots at refrigerated and a...
Feb 17, 2025•18 min•Ep 734•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating a strawberry that has fallen into a garbage disposal. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Brach’s Candy Cinnamon Imperial Hearts Brach’s Candy Tiny Conversation Hearts This time I DIDN’T train a neural net to generate candy hearts - AI Weirdness...
Feb 14, 2025•14 min•Ep 733•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of slow cooling vegetarian chili. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 FSIS Stabilization Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products (Revised Appendix B) December, 2021 Cooling Uncovered Foods at a Depth of ∼5.1 cm (2 in.) or Less Poses Little Risk of Pathogen Growth - ScienceDirect FDA Food Code | FDA Cooling Rates of Chili Using Refrigerator, Blast Chiller, and Chill Stick Cooling Methods...
Feb 12, 2025•23 min•Ep 732•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from sticking energy chews to a bike’s frame for easy access. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Stewie Griffin - Wikipedia Energy Chews | Chewable Energy | GU Energy Labs Outbreak of Campylobacteriosis Associated with a Long-Distance Obstacle Adventure Race — Nevada, October 2012 Campylobacteriosis outbreak associated with ingestion of mud during a mountain bike race - PubMed...
Feb 10, 2025•7 min•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks posed by accidentally eating some seeds or sprouts from a Chia Pet. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 FAQ - Chia.com Chia Home - Chia.com Ice Spice Chia Pet - Chia.com Chia seed benefits: What you need to know - Harvard Health ISGA – International Sprout Growers Association International outbreak of multiple Salmonella serotype infections linked to sprouted chia seed powder – USA and Canada, 2013–2014 | Epidemiology & Infection...
Feb 07, 2025•13 min•Ep 730•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks that Ben faced when eating raw milk gouda cheese in an unregulated Brazilian facility. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Food Safety Talk NC Tobacco Trust Fund Commission Agricultural Leadership Development Program | NC State Extension Gouda Recipe | Cheese Maker Recipes | Cheese Making Supply Enumeration of Escherichia coli O157 in Outbreak-Associated Gouda Cheese Made with Raw Milk - ScienceDirect Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Inf...
Feb 05, 2025•19 min•Ep 729•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of using using stale bread to keep brown sugar moist. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Carnac the Magnificent - Wikipedia The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar Lyrics | Genius Lyrics Brown Sugar Saver | King Arthur Baking Company The Pioneer Woman Terracotta Sugar Saver at Walmart - Where to Buy Ree Drummond’s Brown Sugar Savers How to Soften Brown Sugar | Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods...
Feb 03, 2025•12 min•Ep 728•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from not pre-washing raw meat dishes and placing them directly in the dishwasher. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Cardiff Metropolitan University - Study in Cardiff method to evaluate factors influencing the microbial reduction in domestic dishwashers | Journal of Applied Microbiology | Oxford Academic FSIS Cooking Guideline for Meat and Poultry Products (Revised Appendix A) December, 2021 Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann...
Jan 31, 2025•14 min•Ep 727•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from sunny side up egg from a bird infected with bird flu. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 SHensley: “@benjaminchapman.bsky.social @bugcounter.bsky.social Georgia is like 15% of the US poultry production. Eggs sunny side up from a chicken with bird flu #riskyornot? www.wjcl.com/article/geor…” — Bluesky Full article: Heat inactivation of avian influenza and Newcastle disease viruses in egg products The Impact of Holding Time o...
Jan 29, 2025•17 min•Ep 726•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of workers landfilling ground up highly pathogenic avian influenza infected chickens without personal protective equipment. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ TWiV 1178: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin — This Week in Virology — Overcast CDC Interim Guidance for Landfill Workers in the United States Disposing of Poultry Carcasses During Outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza NJ Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) “Bird F...
Jan 27, 2025•12 min•Ep 725•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from licking Cheetos dust off your fingers. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Home | Cheetos Hands Are Frequently Contaminated with Fecal Bacteria and Enteric Pathogens Globally: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis | ACS Environmental Au
Jan 24, 2025•12 min•Ep 724•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from occasionally eating icicles off your roof. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 What Are Roof Shingles? (2025) | Today’s Homeowner Quality of roof-harvested rainwater – Comparison of different roofing materials - ScienceDirect A global review of the microbiological quality and potential health risks associated with roof-harvested rainwater tanks | npj Clean Water Microbiological Quality of Roof‐Harvested Rainwater and Health ...
Jan 22, 2025•20 min•Ep 723•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating baby poop regularly. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ (3) Gregory Koch: “Eating baby poop - Risky or Not? @bugcounter.bsky.social @benchapmanncsu.bsky.social” — Bluesky Development of intestinal microbiota in infants and its impact on health: Trends in Microbiology Bifidobacterium - Wikipedia The First Microbial Colonizers of the Human Gut: Composition, Activities, and Health Implications of the Infant Gut Microbiota | Microbiol...
Jan 20, 2025•9 min•Ep 722•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from coffee tasting using shared cups, i.e., coffee cupping. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - risky ☣️ Coffee Cupping: A Step By Step Guide Responsible Coffee Cupping During Covid-19 - Perfect Daily Grind Detection of Norovirus in Saliva Samples from Acute Gastroenteritis Cases and Asymptomatic Subjects: Association with Age and Higher Shedding in Stool - PMC US norovirus outbreaks are up, CDC data show | CIDRAP NoroSTAT Data | Norovirus | C...
Jan 17, 2025•13 min•Ep 721•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from accidentally leaving your contact lens solution bottle open. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Eye & Contact Lens The Danger of Using Tap Water with Contact Lenses | US EPA National Outbreak of Acanthamoeba Keratitis Associated with Use of a Contact Lens Solution, United States - PMC Eye Infections From Contact Lenses - American Academy of Ophthalmology Recent Outbreaks of Atypical Contact Lens-Related Keratitis: What Have...
Jan 15, 2025•21 min•Ep 720•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from food in a freezer ajar for 24 hours. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Homepage - STOCKART Download 1000’s of high resolution images | Stockarch Free Stock Photo Archive Avoid Foodborne Illness During Temporary Power Outages | FoodSafety.gov Food safety experts agree with ‘when in doubt, throw it out,’ here’s why | Fox News...
Jan 13, 2025•11 min•Ep 719•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks from cutting bones on a band saw for use in soup stock. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Food saws for meat - band saws by Wintersteiger
Jan 10, 2025•11 min•Ep 718•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating expired turkey deli meat. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 671. Older Man Kayaking With Fresh Wounds in Water Which Regularly Fails Coliform Tests — Risky or Not? The combination of lactate and diacetate synergistically reduces cold growth in brain heart infusion broth across Listeria monocytogenes lineages - PubMed Hillshire Farms Ultra Thin Oven Roasted Turkey Breast - 9oz : Target People at Increased Risk for List...
Jan 08, 2025•18 min•Ep 717•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of arranging objects on a table using only your face. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 Taskmaster (TV series) - Wikipedia Arrange the Objects Using Only your Face | Full Task | Taskmaster - YouTube Egg Storage | Official Egg Info Why American Eggs Would Be Illegal In A British Supermarket, And Vice Versa Salmonella in Eggs Information | Official Egg Info New Government advice: British Lion eggs safe for mums-to-be, babies and ...
Jan 06, 2025•10 min•Ep 716•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of eating blueberries that had a new hat fall into them twice. Dr. Don - not risky 👍🏼 Professor Ben - not risky 👍🏼 National Women’s Soccer League Official Site | NWSL put a hat on a hat - Wiktionary, the free dictionary Authentic Washington Spirit Merch | NWSL Shop 401. Unrefrigerated Jalapeño Queso Dip — Risky or Not?...
Jan 03, 2025•8 min•Ep 715•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the risks of letting your baby lick a snake. Dr. Don - risky ☣️ Professor Ben - risky ☣️ The Surprising Reason Babies Are NOT Afraid of Snakes | Secret Science - YouTube Public Health Notice: Outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to snakes and rodents - Canada.ca...
Jan 01, 2025•10 min•Ep 714•Transcript available on Metacast 
