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 148 Poison Control Part 1: Who you gonna call? 2024-08-13
Special Episode: Ben Goldfarb & Crossings 2024-08-06
Ep 147 Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease: Sympathy for the Devil 2024-07-30
Ep 146 Celiac Disease: Rootin tootin gluten 2024-07-23
Special Episode: Dr. Rageshri Dhairyawan & Unheard 2024-07-16
Ep 145 IVF, Part 3: Industry 2024-07-09
Ep 144 IVF, Part 2: Invention 2024-07-02
Ep 143 IVF, Part 1: Infertility 2024-06-25
Special Episode: Dr. Noah Whiteman & Most Delicious Poison 2024-06-18
Ep 142 Leeches: It’s more powerful than magic, it’s nature 2024-06-11
Special Episode: Dr. Paul Offit & Tell Me When It’s Over 2024-06-04
Ep 141 Maggots: Such noble work 2024-05-28
Ep 140 Nipah virus: Of Fruit and Bats 2024-05-21
Special Episode: Dr. Sara Manning Peskin & A Molecule Away from Madness 2024-05-14
Ep 139 Supplements: “This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA” 2024-05-07
Ep 138 Fever: Take it to the limit 2024-04-30
Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage 2024-04-23
Ep 137 ME/CFS: What’s in a name? (A lot, actually) 2024-04-16
Ep 136 Long Covid: A long time coming 2024-04-09
Ep 135 Menopause is whatever you want it to be 2024-02-13
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