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.

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Ep 162 Allergies Part 2: Shots, pills, & pens 2025-01-14
Ep 161 Allergies Part 1: Pollens, nuts, & bugs 2025-01-07
Special Episode: Philip Eil & Prescription for Pain 2024-12-17
Ep 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone? 2024-12-10
Ep 159 Scabies: Tiny but Mite-y 2024-12-03
Ep 158 Scarlet Fever: You’ve changed 2024-11-26
Special Episode: Dr. Emily Monosson & Blight 2024-11-19
Ep 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going 2024-11-12
Ep 156 Retinoids Part 1: How it started… 2024-11-05
Special Episode: Kate Zernike & The Exceptions 2024-10-29
Ep 155 Stiff Person Syndrome: A rare disease in the spotlight 2024-10-22
Ep 154 Ask The Erins (Again!) 2024-10-15
Special Episode: Dr. Charan Ranganath & Why We Remember 2024-10-08
Ep 153 Alpha-Gal Syndrome: A tick bite gone bad 2024-10-01
Ep 152 Hemochromatosis: Ironing out the details 2024-09-24
Special Episode: Dan Egan & The Devil’s Element 2024-09-17
Ep 151 Stethoscope: Lub dub 2024-09-10
Ep 150 Norovirus: Tip of the poop iceberg 2024-09-03
Special Episode: Maria Smilios & The Black Angels 2024-08-27
Ep 149 Poison Control Part 2: Call me maybe 2024-08-20
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