This Podcast Will Kill You

A podcast by Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network - Tuesdays

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213 Episodes

  1. Ep 60 Giving birth to "The Pill"

    Published: 10/13/2020

  2. Ep 59 Thalidomide: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied

    Published: 9/29/2020

  3. Ep 58 Guinea worm: (Almost) Ancient History

    Published: 9/15/2020

  4. Ep 57 Herpes: Stop the STIgma

    Published: 9/1/2020

  5. Ep 56 Sickle Cell Disease: Invisible Illness, Enduring Strength

    Published: 8/18/2020

  6. Ep 55 Rocky Mountain spotted fever: The tick must be destroyed!

    Published: 8/4/2020

  7. Ep 54 Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine

    Published: 7/21/2020

  8. Ep 53 Radiation: X-Ray Marks the Spot

    Published: 7/7/2020

  9. Ep 52 Rinderpest: Moo Cows, Moo Problems

    Published: 6/23/2020

  10. Ep 51 The Path of Most (Antibiotic) Resistance

    Published: 5/26/2020

  11. Ep 50 Antibiotics: We owe it all to chemistry!

    Published: 5/12/2020

  12. COVID-19 Ch 11: Modeling

    Published: 5/4/2020

  13. Ep 49 Eastern Equine Encephalitis: Triple EEEk!

    Published: 4/28/2020

  14. COVID-19 Chapter 10: Schools

    Published: 4/23/2020

  15. COVID-19 Chapter 9: Economics

    Published: 4/20/2020

  16. Ep 48 Botulism: Why are you the way you are?

    Published: 4/14/2020

  17. COVID-19 Chapter 8: Disparities

    Published: 4/9/2020

  18. COVID-19 Chapter 7: Spillover

    Published: 4/6/2020

  19. Ep 47 Schistosomiasis: A Snail's Pace

    Published: 3/31/2020

  20. COVID-19 Chapter 6: Mental Health

    Published: 3/23/2020

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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.