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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Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad 2023-07-18
Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer. 2023-07-11
Special Episode: Dr. Andrew Wehrman & The Contagion of Liberty 2023-07-04
Ep 119 Marburg virus: Too fast, too furious 2023-06-27
Special Episode: Dr. Steven Thrasher & The Viral Underclass 2023-06-13
Ep 118 Asbestos: Corruption and cancer and corporate greed, oh my! 2023-05-30
Special Episode: Mary Roach & Fuzz 2023-05-16
Ep 117 Bedbugs: Bug-bitten and bedeviled 2023-05-02
Special Episode: Dr. Kate Clancy & Period 2023-04-18
Ep 116 It's never lupus (except this time) 2023-04-04
Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though? 2023-03-21
Special Episode: Angela Saini & Superior 2023-03-14
Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map 2023-03-07
Special Episode: Sarah Everts & The Joy of Sweat 2023-02-28
Ep 113 Vitamin D: The D stands for drama 2023-02-21
Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless 2023-02-14
Ep 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm 2023-02-07
Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway? 2023-01-24
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play 2022-11-22
Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?) 2022-11-08
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