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.
Title | Date published | ||
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play | 2022-11-22 | ||
Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?) | 2022-11-08 | ||
Ep 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating | 2022-10-25 | ||
Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess | 2022-10-11 | ||
Ep 106 Turner Syndrome: Let's talk about X | 2022-09-27 | ||
Ep 105 Down in the Mumps | 2022-09-13 | ||
Ep 104 The Bends: Industrial Revolution, baby | 2022-08-30 | ||
Ep 103 Leptospirosis: Don't blame the rats | 2022-08-16 | ||
Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy | 2022-08-02 | ||
Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You | 2022-07-19 | ||
Ep 100 Monkeypox: Here we go again? | 2022-07-12 | ||
Ep 99 Salmonella: A hard egg to crack | 2022-06-21 | ||
Ep 98 Folate: Marmite, anyone? | 2022-06-07 | ||
Special Episode: Snake Venom Evolution | 2022-05-31 | ||
Ep 97 Snake Venom: Collateral Damage | 2022-05-24 | ||
Special Episode: Coprolites! | 2022-05-17 | ||
Ep 96 Tapeworm: We encyst you listen | 2022-05-10 | ||
Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology | 2022-05-03 | ||
Ep 95 Tetanus: An inhuman calamity! | 2022-04-26 | ||
Special Episode: Chlamydia, Koalas, and More! | 2022-04-19 |