

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.
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.
Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the This Podcast Will Kill You:
#1 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A Brief History of Milk Hygiene and Its Impact on Infant Mortality from 1875 to 1925 and Implications for Today
#2 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Liquid Materialities, A History of Milk, and the Law

#3 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Missing Microbes
#4 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Birth, The Surprising History of How We Are Born
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#5 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Antibacterial Agents, Chemistry, Mode of Action, Mechanisms of Resistance, and Clinical Applications
#6 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Antibiotics Challenges Mechanisms Opportunities

#7 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Witches, Midwives, and Nurses
A History of Women Healers
#8 Mentioned in 1 episodes
BLACK ANGELS
#9 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Complete Guide to Maggot Therapy

#10 Mentioned in 1 episodes
A midwife's tale
the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812

#11 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Bitter Nemesis
The Intimate History of Strychnine

#12 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Book of Job

#13 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The demon under the microscope
#14 Mentioned in 1 episodes
The Midwife Said Fear Not
The History of Midwifery in the U.S. Up Through Today
#15 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Life's Vital Link, The Astonishing Role of the Placenta
#16 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Pregnancy Test

#17 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Medical Bondage

#18 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Who Killed Jane Stanford? - a Gilded-Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University

#19 Mentioned in 1 episodes
Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
#20 Mentioned in 1 episodes