226 Episodes

  1. Ep 44 Pertussis: Whoop Here It Is

    Published: 2/18/2020

  2. Ep 43 M-m-m-my Coronaviruses

    Published: 2/4/2020

  3. Ep 42 Dandy Dengue Fever

    Published: 1/21/2020

  4. Ep 41 Ricin: A Bad Seed

    Published: 1/7/2020

  5. Ep 40 Dancing Plague: Worst Dance Party Ever

    Published: 12/24/2019

  6. Ep 39 Toxoplasmosis: Calling All Cats

    Published: 12/10/2019

  7. Ep 38 Lead Poisoning: Heavy Metal Episode

    Published: 11/26/2019

  8. Ep 37 E. coli (unless it's beets)

    Published: 11/12/2019

  9. Ep 36 Shades of Syphilis

    Published: 10/29/2019

  10. Ep 35 Lyme Disease: I'd like to check you for ticks

    Published: 9/3/2019

  11. Ep 34 Cystic Fibrosis: Complete Somatic Rebellion

    Published: 8/20/2019

  12. Ep 33 Chytrid: The Silent Forest

    Published: 8/6/2019

  13. Ep 32 Ask the Erins

    Published: 7/23/2019

  14. Ep 31 Giardia: Gerardia

    Published: 7/9/2019

  15. Ep 30 Encephalitis Lethargica: Sleep Perchance to Dream (& Dream & Dream)

    Published: 6/25/2019

  16. Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP

    Published: 6/11/2019

  17. Ep 28 H. pylori: Don't try this at home

    Published: 5/28/2019

  18. Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?

    Published: 5/21/2019

  19. Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

    Published: 5/14/2019

  20. Ep 25 Put your hands together for: Gonorrhea!

    Published: 4/30/2019

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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.