226 Episodes

  1. Ep 164 Rift Valley Fever: Ruminating on ruminants

    Published: 2/4/2025

  2. Ep 163 Circadian Rhythm: Live from Perth, Australia

    Published: 1/28/2025

  3. Special Episode: Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai & Diseased Cinema

    Published: 1/21/2025

  4. Ep 162 Allergies Part 2: Shots, pills, & pens

    Published: 1/14/2025

  5. Ep 161 Allergies Part 1: Pollens, nuts, & bugs

    Published: 1/7/2025

  6. Special Episode: Philip Eil & Prescription for Pain

    Published: 12/17/2024

  7. Ep 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?

    Published: 12/10/2024

  8. Ep 159 Scabies: Tiny but Mite-y

    Published: 12/3/2024

  9. Ep 158 Scarlet Fever: You’ve changed

    Published: 11/26/2024

  10. Special Episode: Dr. Emily Monosson & Blight

    Published: 11/19/2024

  11. Ep 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going

    Published: 11/12/2024

  12. Ep 156 Retinoids Part 1: How it started…

    Published: 11/5/2024

  13. Special Episode: Kate Zernike & The Exceptions

    Published: 10/29/2024

  14. Ep 155 Stiff Person Syndrome: A rare disease in the spotlight

    Published: 10/22/2024

  15. Ep 154 Ask The Erins (Again!)

    Published: 10/15/2024

  16. Special Episode: Dr. Charan Ranganath & Why We Remember

    Published: 10/8/2024

  17. Ep 153 Alpha-Gal Syndrome: A tick bite gone bad

    Published: 10/1/2024

  18. Ep 152 Hemochromatosis: Ironing out the details

    Published: 9/24/2024

  19. Special Episode: Dan Egan & The Devil’s Element

    Published: 9/17/2024

  20. Ep 151 Stethoscope: Lub dub

    Published: 9/10/2024

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This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to.   Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more. Each episode is accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita. Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program. This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including science, true crime, comedic interviews, news, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Buried Bones, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast and more.