This Podcast Will Kill You
By Exactly Right Media – the original true crime comedy network
Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Category: Science
Open in Apple Podcasts
Open RSS feed
Open Website
Rate for this podcast
Subscribers: 7592
Reviews: 57
Episodes: 167
amylou7
Aug 30, 2023
love this podcast have just been listening to the HIV/Aids episode way back in 2018. do you think you guys will do and update on the news that the vaccine is "curing" the disease. x
Jan 2, 2023
Aug 21, 2022
Mark Spedding
Jul 29, 2022
You guys are thoroughly righteous. I love and appreciate your science approach. I first listened to your "Spanish" flu episode shortly before the COVID -19 experience, and will be forever grateful for the insights you generated. Abortion? Y
Feb 20, 2022
Description
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.
| Episode | Date |
|---|---|
|
Ep 125 Blastomycosis: How fungus became amongus
|
Sep 26, 2023 |
|
Ep 124 The full spectrum of color vision deficiency
|
Sep 12, 2023 |
|
Ep 123 Hand, Foot, and Mouth (and Butt?) Disease
|
Aug 29, 2023 |
|
Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode
|
Aug 15, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World
|
Aug 08, 2023 |
|
Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow
|
Aug 01, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad
|
Jul 25, 2023 |
|
Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.
|
Jul 18, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Dr. Andrew Wehrman & The Contagion of Liberty
|
Jul 11, 2023 |
|
Ep 119 Marburg virus: Too fast, too furious
|
Jul 04, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Dr. Steven Thrasher & The Viral Underclass
|
Jun 20, 2023 |
|
Ep 118 Asbestos: Corruption and cancer and corporate greed, oh my!
|
Jun 06, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Mary Roach & Fuzz
|
May 23, 2023 |
|
Ep 117 Bedbugs: Bug-bitten and bedeviled
|
May 09, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Dr. Kate Clancy & Period
|
Apr 25, 2023 |
|
Ep 116 It's never lupus (except this time)
|
Apr 11, 2023 |
|
Ep 115 Altitude Sickness: Balloons though?
|
Mar 28, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Angela Saini & Superior
|
Mar 21, 2023 |
|
Ep 114 Listeria: It put dairy on the map
|
Mar 14, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: Sarah Everts & The Joy of Sweat
|
Mar 07, 2023 |
|
Ep 113 Vitamin D: The D stands for drama
|
Feb 28, 2023 |
|
Special Episode: David Quammen & Breathless
|
Feb 21, 2023 |
|
Ep 112 Epilepsy: It’s always the phlegm
|
Feb 14, 2023 |
|
Ep 111 RSV: What’s syncytial anyway?
|
Jan 31, 2023 |
|
Ep 110 Influenza, Take 2: Fowl Play
|
Nov 29, 2022 |
|
Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)
|
Nov 15, 2022 |
|
Ep 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating
|
Nov 01, 2022 |
|
Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess
|
Oct 18, 2022 |
|
Ep 106 Turner Syndrome: Let's talk about X
|
Oct 04, 2022 |
|
Ep 105 Down in the Mumps
|
Sep 20, 2022 |
|
Ep 104 The Bends: Industrial Revolution, baby
|
Sep 06, 2022 |
|
Ep 103 Leptospirosis: Don't blame the rats
|
Aug 23, 2022 |
|
Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy
|
Aug 09, 2022 |
|
Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You
|
Jul 26, 2022 |
|
Ep 100 Monkeypox: Here we go again?
|
Jul 12, 2022 |
|
Ep 99 Salmonella: A hard egg to crack
|
Jun 28, 2022 |
|
Ep 98 Folate: Marmite, anyone?
|
Jun 14, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Snake Venom Evolution
|
Jun 07, 2022 |
|
Ep 97 Snake Venom: Collateral Damage
|
May 31, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Coprolites!
|
May 24, 2022 |
|
Ep 96 Tapeworm: We encyst you listen
|
May 17, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology
|
May 10, 2022 |
|
Ep 95 Tetanus: An inhuman calamity!
|
May 03, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Chlamydia, Koalas, and More!
|
Apr 26, 2022 |
|
Ep 94 Chlamydia: Double Trouble
|
Apr 19, 2022 |
|
Re-Release: Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?
|
Apr 12, 2022 |
|
Re-Release: Ep 26 Vaccines Part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice
|
Apr 05, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Electricity
|
Mar 29, 2022 |
|
Ep 93 Lightning & Other Stories: Power Hour (and a Half)
|
Mar 22, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Epstein-Barr Virus
|
Mar 15, 2022 |
|
Ep 92 Multiple Sclerosis: Scarred nerves & skating saints
|
Mar 08, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus
|
Mar 01, 2022 |
|
Ep 91 Myxomatosis: Down the rabbit hole
|
Feb 22, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Human African Trypanosomiasis & Drug Development
|
Feb 15, 2022 |
|
Ep 90 Human African Trypanosomiasis: A lot to unpack
|
Feb 08, 2022 |
|
Special Episode: Hep B Stigma & Discrimination
|
Feb 01, 2022 |
|
Ep 89 Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2
|
Jan 25, 2022 |
|
Ep 88 Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash
|
Jan 11, 2022 |
|
Ep 87 C. diff: Fighting poop with poop
|
Dec 28, 2021 |
|
Ep 86 Typhus: Another lousy episode
|
Dec 14, 2021 |
|
Ep 85 Alcohol: Beer for Thought
|
Nov 02, 2021 |
|
Ep 84 West Nile virus: The Crow in the Coal Mine
|
Oct 19, 2021 |
|
Ep 83 Diabetes: Short & Sweet
|
Oct 05, 2021 |
|
Ep 82 Anthrax: The Hardcore Spore
|
Sep 21, 2021 |
|
Ep 81 Chagas disease: The Reverse Triple Discovery
|
Sep 07, 2021 |
|
Ep 80 Dysentery loves a disaster
|
Aug 24, 2021 |
|
Ep 79 Hemophilia: A Hemorrhagic Disposition
|
Aug 10, 2021 |
|
Ep 78 Bartonella: Keep Calm and Carrión
|
Jul 27, 2021 |
|
Ep 77 Legionnaires' Disease: A Killer Mist
|
Jul 13, 2021 |
|
Ep 76 Chickenpox: There's always a 'but'
|
Jun 29, 2021 |
|
Ep 75 Mercury: The cost of progress
|
Jun 15, 2021 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 20: Looking forward by looking back
|
Jun 08, 2021 |
|
Ep 74 Naegleria fowleri: The "brain-eating amoeba"
|
Jun 01, 2021 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 19: Your Stories
|
May 25, 2021 |
|
Ep 73 Puerperal Fever: Seriously, wash your hands
|
May 18, 2021 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 18: Conservation & Pandemics
|
May 11, 2021 |
|
Ep 72 White-Nose Syndrome: How deep is your torpor?
|
May 04, 2021 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 17: Frontline Mental Health
|
Apr 27, 2021 |
|
Ep 71 Onchocerciasis/River Blindness: So many mysteries
|
Apr 20, 2021 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 16: Disparities, Take 2
|
Apr 13, 2021 |
|
Ep 70 Henrietta Lacks: HeLa, There, & Everywhere
|
Apr 06, 2021 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 15: Disease, Take 2
|
Mar 30, 2021 |
|
Ep 69 Huntington’s disease: Let’s talk frankly
|
Mar 23, 2021 |
|
Ep 68 Coccidioidomycosis: It’s never a spider bite
|
Mar 09, 2021 |
|
Ep 67 HPV: My wart be with you
|
Feb 23, 2021 |
|
Ep 66 The Outs and Ins of Organ Transplantation
|
Feb 09, 2021 |
|
Ep 65 Sweating Sickness: Ready, Sweat, Go!
|
Jan 26, 2021 |
|
Ep 64 Rubella: Timing is Everything
|
Jan 12, 2021 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 14: Virology, Take 2
|
Jan 05, 2021 |
|
Ep 63 Poison Ivy: It's Just Us
|
Dec 29, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 13: Vaccines, Take 2
|
Dec 22, 2020 |
|
Ep 62 Leishmaniasis, Relationship Status: It's Complicated
|
Dec 15, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 12: Control, Take 2
|
Dec 10, 2020 |
|
Ep 61 Typhoid: There's Something About Mary
|
Dec 01, 2020 |
|
Ep 60 Giving birth to "The Pill"
|
Oct 13, 2020 |
|
Ep 59 Thalidomide: Justice Delayed, Justice Denied
|
Sep 29, 2020 |
|
Ep 58 Guinea worm: (Almost) Ancient History
|
Sep 15, 2020 |
|
Ep 57 Herpes: Stop the STIgma
|
Sep 01, 2020 |
|
Ep 56 Sickle Cell Disease: Invisible Illness, Enduring Strength
|
Aug 18, 2020 |
|
Ep 55 Rocky Mountain spotted fever: The tick must be destroyed!
|
Aug 04, 2020 |
|
Ep 54 Wake Up and Smell the Caffeine
|
Jul 21, 2020 |
|
Ep 53 Radiation: X-Ray Marks the Spot
|
Jul 07, 2020 |
|
Ep 52 Rinderpest: Moo Cows, Moo Problems
|
Jun 23, 2020 |
|
Ep 51 The Path of Most (Antibiotic) Resistance
|
May 26, 2020 |
|
Ep 50 Antibiotics: We owe it all to chemistry!
|
May 12, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Ch 11: Modeling
|
May 04, 2020 |
|
Ep 49 Eastern Equine Encephalitis: Triple EEEk!
|
Apr 28, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 10: Schools
|
Apr 23, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 9: Economics
|
Apr 20, 2020 |
|
Ep 48 Botulism: Why are you the way you are?
|
Apr 14, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 8: Disparities
|
Apr 09, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 7: Spillover
|
Apr 06, 2020 |
|
Ep 47 Schistosomiasis: A Snail's Pace
|
Mar 31, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 6: Mental Health
|
Mar 23, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 5: Vaccines
|
Mar 23, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 4: Epidemiology
|
Mar 23, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 3: Control
|
Mar 23, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 2: Disease
|
Mar 23, 2020 |
|
COVID-19 Chapter 1: Virology
|
Mar 23, 2020 |
|
Ep 46 Lactose Intolerance: Never trust a fart
|
Mar 17, 2020 |
|
Ep 45 Hepatitis C: Hepatiti?
|
Mar 03, 2020 |
|
Ep 44 Pertussis: Whoop Here It Is
|
Feb 18, 2020 |
|
Ep 43 M-m-m-my Coronaviruses
|
Feb 04, 2020 |
|
Ep 42 Dandy Dengue Fever
|
Jan 21, 2020 |
|
Ep 41 Ricin: A Bad Seed
|
Jan 07, 2020 |
|
Ep 40 Dancing Plague: Worst Dance Party Ever
|
Dec 24, 2019 |
|
Ep 39 Toxoplasmosis: Calling All Cats
|
Dec 10, 2019 |
|
Ep 38 Lead Poisoning: Heavy Metal Episode
|
Nov 26, 2019 |
|
Ep 37 E. coli (unless it's beets)
|
Nov 12, 2019 |
|
Ep 36 Shades of Syphilis
|
Oct 29, 2019 |
|
Ep 35 Lyme Disease: I'd like to check you for ticks
|
Sep 03, 2019 |
|
Ep 34 Cystic Fibrosis: Complete Somatic Rebellion
|
Aug 20, 2019 |
|
Ep 33 Chytrid: The Silent Forest
|
Aug 06, 2019 |
|
Ep 32 Ask the Erins
|
Jul 23, 2019 |
|
Ep 31 Giardia: Gerardia
|
Jul 09, 2019 |
|
Ep 30 Encephalitis Lethargica: Sleep Perchance to Dream (& Dream & Dream)
|
Jun 25, 2019 |
|
Ep 29 Aspirin the Wonder Drug: Crossover w/ IDOP
|
Jun 11, 2019 |
|
Ep 28 H. pylori: Don't try this at home
|
May 28, 2019 |
|
Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?
|
May 21, 2019 |
|
Ep 26 Vaccines part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice
|
May 14, 2019 |
|
Ep 25 Put your hands together for: Gonorrhea!
|
Apr 30, 2019 |
|
Ep 24 Zika: Rumors and Rumours
|
Apr 16, 2019 |
|
Ep 23 Opening a can of Hookworms
|
Apr 02, 2019 |
|
Ep 22 Belladonna will dilate your mind: Crossover w/ IDOP
|
Mar 19, 2019 |
|
Ep 21 Measles: The Worst Souvenir
|
Mar 05, 2019 |
|
Ep 20 Prions: Apocalypse Cow
|
Feb 19, 2019 |
|
Ep 19 Scurvy: Thanks a lot, evolution.
|
Feb 05, 2019 |
|
Ep 18 Hantavirus: The Real Rat Race
|
Jan 22, 2019 |
|
Ep 17 Oh No Tetrodo: Crossover w/ TBOSP
|
Jan 08, 2019 |
|
Ep 16 Scratch and Sniff Diphtheria Membrane
|
Dec 24, 2018 |
|
Ep 15 MRSA: Make Resistance Susceptible Again
|
Dec 11, 2018 |
|
Ep 14 Rabies: Don't dilute me, bro
|
Nov 27, 2018 |
|
Ep 13 Don't Tread on my Monkshood: Crossover w/ IDOP
|
Feb 27, 2018 |
|
Special Episode: HIV/AIDS
|
Jan 30, 2018 |
|
Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You
|
Jan 23, 2018 |
|
Ep 11 Ebola: The New Kid on the Block
|
Jan 16, 2018 |
|
Ep 10 Yellow Fever: Is there a Hamilton song about this?
|
Jan 09, 2018 |
|
Ep 9 Tuberculosis: A Slow Burn
|
Jan 02, 2018 |
|
Ep 8 ABRACADABRA - Go Away Malaria!
|
Dec 19, 2017 |
|
Ep 7 Hit Me With Your Best (Polio) Shot
|
Dec 12, 2017 |
|
Ep 6 Plague Part 2: TGFA
|
Dec 05, 2017 |
|
Ep 5 Plague Part 1: The GMOAT
|
Nov 28, 2017 |
|
Ep 4 The Poop Show
|
Nov 21, 2017 |
|
Ep 3 Gnarlypox
|
Nov 14, 2017 |
|
Ep 2 Skin in the Game, Horse in the Race
|
Nov 07, 2017 |
|
Ep 1 Influenza Will Kill You
|
Oct 31, 2017 |
|
Episode 0 - TPWKY Season 1 Trailer
|
Oct 23, 2017 |