226 Episodes

  1. Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology

    Published: 5/3/2022

  2. Ep 95 Tetanus: An inhuman calamity!

    Published: 4/26/2022

  3. Special Episode: Chlamydia, Koalas, and More!

    Published: 4/19/2022

  4. Ep 94 Chlamydia: Double Trouble

    Published: 4/19/2022

  5. Re-Release: Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?

    Published: 4/12/2022

  6. Re-Release: Ep 26 Vaccines Part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice

    Published: 4/5/2022

  7. Special Episode: Electricity

    Published: 3/29/2022

  8. Ep 93 Lightning & Other Stories: Power Hour (and a Half)

    Published: 3/22/2022

  9. Special Episode: Epstein-Barr Virus

    Published: 3/15/2022

  10. Ep 92 Multiple Sclerosis: Scarred nerves & skating saints

    Published: 3/8/2022

  11. Special Episode: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus

    Published: 3/1/2022

  12. Ep 91 Myxomatosis: Down the rabbit hole

    Published: 2/22/2022

  13. Special Episode: Human African Trypanosomiasis & Drug Development

    Published: 2/15/2022

  14. Ep 90 Human African Trypanosomiasis: A lot to unpack

    Published: 2/8/2022

  15. Special Episode: Hep B Stigma & Discrimination

    Published: 2/1/2022

  16. Ep 89 Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2

    Published: 1/25/2022

  17. Ep 88 Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash

    Published: 1/11/2022

  18. Ep 87 C. diff: Fighting poop with poop

    Published: 12/28/2021

  19. Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode

    Published: 12/14/2021

  20. Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought

    Published: 11/2/2021

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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.