This Podcast Will Kill You

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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.

Ep 77 Legionnaires' Disease: A Killer Mist

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Ep 77 Legionnaires' Disease: A Killer Mist
1 h 11m

Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but'

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Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but'
1 h 15m

Ep 75 Mercury: The cost of progress

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Ep 75 Mercury: The cost of progress
1 h 22m

COVID-19 Chapter 20: Looking forward by looking back

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COVID-19 Chapter 20: Looking forward by looking back
1 h 6m

Ep 74 Naegleria fowleri: The "brain-eating amoeba"

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Ep 74 Naegleria fowleri: The "brain-eating amoeba"
1 h 5m

COVID-19 Chapter 19: Your Stories

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COVID-19 Chapter 19: Your Stories
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Ep 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands

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Ep 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands
1 h 26m

COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics

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COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics
1 h 1m

Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor?

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Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor?
1 h 24m

COVID-19 Chapter 17: Frontline Mental Health

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COVID-19 Chapter 17: Frontline Mental Health
1 h 8m

Ep 71 Onchocerciasis/River Blindness: So many mysteries

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Ep 71 Onchocerciasis/River Blindness: So many mysteries
1 h 13m

COVID-19 Chapter 16: Disparities, Take 2

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COVID-19 Chapter 16: Disparities, Take 2
1 h 3m

Ep 70 Henrietta Lacks: HeLa, There, & Everywhere

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Ep 70 Henrietta Lacks: HeLa, There, & Everywhere
1 h 13m

COVID-19 Chapter 15: Disease, Take 2

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COVID-19 Chapter 15: Disease, Take 2
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Ep 69 Huntington’s disease: Let’s talk frankly

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Ep 69 Huntington’s disease: Let’s talk frankly
1 h 25m

Ep 68 Coccidioidomycosis: It’s never a spider bite

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Ep 68 Coccidioidomycosis: It’s never a spider bite
1 h 19m

Ep 67 HPV: My wart be with you

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Ep 67 HPV: My wart be with you
1 h 27m

Ep 66 The Outs and Ins of Organ Transplantation

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Ep 66 The Outs and Ins of Organ Transplantation
1 h 41m

Ep 65 Sweating Sickness: Ready, Sweat, Go!

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Ep 65 Sweating Sickness: Ready, Sweat, Go!
1 h 19m

Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything

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Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything
1 h 19m

COVID-19 Chapter 14: Virology, Take 2

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COVID-19 Chapter 14: Virology, Take 2
1 h 2m

Ep 63 Poison Ivy: It's Just Us

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Ep 63 Poison Ivy: It's Just Us
1 h 22m

COVID-19 Chapter 13: Vaccines, Take 2

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COVID-19 Chapter 13: Vaccines, Take 2
1 h 19m

Ep 62 Leishmaniasis, Relationship Status: It's Complicated

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Ep 62 Leishmaniasis, Relationship Status: It's Complicated
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COVID-19 Chapter 12: Control, Take 2

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COVID-19 Chapter 12: Control, Take 2
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Ep 61 Typhoid: There's Something About Mary

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Ep 61 Typhoid: There's Something About Mary
1 h 27m

Ep 60 Giving birth to "The Pill"

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Ep 60 Giving birth to "The Pill"
1 h 33m

Ep 59 Thalidomide: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied

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Ep 59 Thalidomide: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
1 h 32m

Ep 58 Guinea worm: (Almost) Ancient History

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Ep 58 Guinea worm: (Almost) Ancient History
1 h 9m

Ep 57 Herpes: Stop the STIgma

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Ep 57 Herpes: Stop the STIgma
1 h 25m