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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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Ep 128 Skin Cancer: We love and fear the sun

Oct 31, 2023
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Ep 127 Bhopal: The 1984 Union Carbide Disaster

Oct 17, 2023
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Ep 126 Migraine: A Cacophony in Four Movements

Oct 3, 2023
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Ep 125 Blastomycosis: How fungus became amongus

Sep 19, 2023
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Ep 124 The full spectrum of color vision deficiency

Sep 5, 2023
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Ep 123 Hand, Foot, and Mouth (and Butt?) Disease

Aug 22, 2023
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Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode

Aug 8, 2023
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Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World

Aug 1, 2023
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Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow

Jul 25, 2023
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Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad

Jul 18, 2023