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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 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?

Dec 10, 2024
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Ep 159 Scabies: Tiny but Mite-y

Dec 3, 2024
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Ep 158 Scarlet Fever: You’ve changed

Nov 26, 2024
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Special Episode: Dr. Emily Monosson & Blight

Nov 19, 2024
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Ep 157 Retinoids Part 2: …how it’s going

Nov 12, 2024
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Ep 156 Retinoids Part 1: How it started…

Nov 5, 2024
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Special Episode: Kate Zernike & The Exceptions

Oct 29, 2024
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Ep 155 Stiff Person Syndrome: A rare disease in the spotlight

Oct 22, 2024
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Ep 154 Ask The Erins (Again!)

Oct 15, 2024
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Special Episode: Dr. Charan Ranganath & Why We Remember

Oct 8, 2024