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This Podcast Will Kill You

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: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus

Mar 1, 2022
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Ep 91 Myxomatosis: Down the rabbit hole

Feb 22, 2022
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Special Episode: Human African Trypanosomiasis & Drug Development

Feb 15, 2022
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Ep 90 Human African Trypanosomiasis: A lot to unpack

Feb 8, 2022
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Special Episode: Hep B Stigma & Discrimination

Feb 1, 2022
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Ep 89 Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2

Jan 25, 2022
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Ep 88 Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash

Jan 11, 2022
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Ep 87 C. diff: Fighting poop with poop

Dec 28, 2021
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Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode

Dec 14, 2021
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Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought

Nov 2, 2021