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 79 Hemophilia: A Hemorrhagic Disposition 2021-08-10
Ep 78 Bartonella: Keep Calm and Carrión 2021-07-27
Ep 77 Legionnaires' Disease: A Killer Mist 2021-07-13
Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but' 2021-06-29
Ep 75 Mercury: The cost of progress 2021-06-15
COVID-19 Chapter 20: Looking forward by looking back 2021-06-08
Ep 74 Naegleria fowleri: The "brain-eating amoeba" 2021-06-01
COVID-19 Chapter 19: Your Stories 2021-05-25
Ep 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands 2021-05-18
COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics 2021-05-11
Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor? 2021-05-04
COVID-19 Chapter 17: Frontline Mental Health 2021-04-27
Ep 71 Onchocerciasis/River Blindness: So many mysteries 2021-04-20
COVID-19 Chapter 16: Disparities, Take 2 2021-04-13
Ep 70 Henrietta Lacks: HeLa, There, & Everywhere 2021-04-06
COVID-19 Chapter 15: Disease, Take 2 2021-03-30
Ep 69 Huntington’s disease: Let’s talk frankly 2021-03-23
Ep 68 Coccidioidomycosis: It’s never a spider bite 2021-03-09
Ep 67 HPV: My wart be with you 2021-02-23
Ep 66 The Outs and Ins of Organ Transplantation 2021-02-09
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