226 Episodes

  1. Ep 24 Zika: Rumors and Rumours

    Published: 4/16/2019

  2. Ep 23 Opening a can of Hookworms

    Published: 4/2/2019

  3. Ep 22 Belladonna will dilate your mind: Crossover w/ IDOP

    Published: 3/19/2019

  4. Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir

    Published: 3/5/2019

  5. Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow

    Published: 2/19/2019

  6. Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.

    Published: 2/5/2019

  7. Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race

    Published: 1/22/2019

  8. Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP

    Published: 1/8/2019

  9. Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane

    Published: 12/24/2018

  10. Ep 15 MRSA: Make Resistance Susceptible Again

    Published: 12/11/2018

  11. Ep 14 Rabies: Don't dilute me, bro

    Published: 11/27/2018

  12. Don't Tread on my Monkshood: Crossover w/ IDOP

    Published: 2/27/2018

  13. Bonus Episode HIV/AIDS

    Published: 1/30/2018

  14. Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You

    Published: 1/23/2018

  15. Ep 11 Ebola: The New Kid on the Block

    Published: 1/16/2018

  16. Ep 10 Yellow Fever: Is there a Hamilton song about this?

    Published: 1/9/2018

  17. Ep 9 Tuberculosis: A Slow Burn

    Published: 1/2/2018

  18. Ep 8 ABRACADABRA - Go Away Malaria!

    Published: 12/19/2017

  19. Ep 7 Hit Me With Your Best (Polio) Shot

    Published: 12/12/2017

  20. Ep 6 Plague Part 2: TGFA

    Published: 12/5/2017

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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.