226 Episodes

  1. Ep 150 Norovirus: Tip of the poop iceberg

    Published: 9/3/2024

  2. Special Episode: Maria Smilios & The Black Angels

    Published: 8/27/2024

  3. Ep 149 Poison Control Part 2: Call me maybe

    Published: 8/20/2024

  4. Ep 148 Poison Control Part 1: Who you gonna call?

    Published: 8/13/2024

  5. Special Episode: Ben Goldfarb & Crossings

    Published: 8/6/2024

  6. Ep 147 Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease: Sympathy for the Devil

    Published: 7/30/2024

  7. Ep 146 Celiac Disease: Rootin tootin gluten

    Published: 7/23/2024

  8. Special Episode: Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan & Unheard

    Published: 7/16/2024

  9. Ep 145 IVF, Part 3: Industry

    Published: 7/9/2024

  10. Ep 144 IVF, Part 2: Invention

    Published: 7/2/2024

  11. Ep 143 IVF, Part 1: Infertility

    Published: 6/25/2024

  12. Special Episode: Dr. Noah Whiteman & Most Delicious Poison

    Published: 6/18/2024

  13. Ep 142 Leeches: It’s more powerful than magic, it’s nature

    Published: 6/11/2024

  14. Special Episode: Dr. Paul Offit & Tell Me When It’s Over

    Published: 6/4/2024

  15. Ep 141 Maggots: Such noble work

    Published: 5/28/2024

  16. Ep 140 Nipah virus: Of Fruit and Bats

    Published: 5/21/2024

  17. Special Episode: Dr. Sara Manning Peskin & A Molecule Away from Madness

    Published: 5/14/2024

  18. Ep 139 Supplements: “This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA”

    Published: 5/7/2024

  19. Ep 138 Fever: Take it to the limit

    Published: 4/30/2024

  20. Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage

    Published: 4/23/2024

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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.