226 Episodes

  1. Ep 84 West Nile virus: The Crow in the Coal Mine

    Published: 10/19/2021

  2. Ep 83 Diabetes: Short & Sweet

    Published: 10/5/2021

  3. Ep 82 Anthrax: The Hardcore Spore

    Published: 9/21/2021

  4. Ep 81 Chagas disease: The Reverse Triple Discovery

    Published: 9/7/2021

  5. Ep 80 Dysentery loves a disaster

    Published: 8/24/2021

  6. Ep 79 Hemophilia: A Hemorrhagic Disposition

    Published: 8/10/2021

  7. Ep 78 Bartonella: Keep Calm and Carrión

    Published: 7/27/2021

  8. Ep 77 Legionnaires' Disease: A Killer Mist

    Published: 7/13/2021

  9. Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but'

    Published: 6/29/2021

  10. Ep 75 Mercury: The cost of progress

    Published: 6/15/2021

  11. COVID-19 Chapter 20: Looking forward by looking back

    Published: 6/8/2021

  12. Ep 74 Naegleria fowleri: The "brain-eating amoeba"

    Published: 6/1/2021

  13. COVID-19 Chapter 19: Your Stories

    Published: 5/25/2021

  14. Ep 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands

    Published: 5/18/2021

  15. COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics

    Published: 5/11/2021

  16. Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor?

    Published: 5/4/2021

  17. COVID-19 Chapter 17: Frontline Mental Health

    Published: 4/27/2021

  18. Ep 71 Onchocerciasis/River Blindness: So many mysteries

    Published: 4/20/2021

  19. COVID-19 Chapter 16: Disparities, Take 2

    Published: 4/13/2021

  20. Ep 70 Henrietta Lacks: HeLa, There, & Everywhere

    Published: 4/6/2021

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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.