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 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
Ep 65 Sweating Sickness: Ready, Sweat, Go! 2021-01-26
Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything 2021-01-12
COVID-19 Chapter 14: Virology, Take 2 2021-01-05
Ep 63 Poison Ivy: It's Just Us 2020-12-29
COVID-19 Chapter 13: Vaccines, Take 2 2020-12-22
Ep 62 Leishmaniasis, Relationship Status: It's Complicated 2020-12-15
COVID-19 Chapter 12: Control, Take 2 2020-12-10
Ep 61 Typhoid: There's Something About Mary 2020-12-01
Ep 60 Giving birth to "The Pill" 2020-10-13
Ep 59 Thalidomide: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied 2020-09-29
Ep 58 Guinea worm: (Almost) Ancient History 2020-09-15
Ep 57 Herpes: Stop the STIgma 2020-09-01
Ep 56 Sickle Cell Disease: Invisible Illness, Enduring Strength 2020-08-18
Ep 55 Rocky Mountain spotted fever: The tick must be destroyed! 2020-08-04
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