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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.
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Ep 210 Histoplasmosis: Bats, birds, and budding yeast
May 19, 2026
Once thought to be a rare, always fatal disease, histoplasmosis is now recognized as one of the most prevalent fungal infections in North America. It infects hundreds of thousands of people every…
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This Podcast Will Kill You: 'Ep 210 Histoplasmosis' Review
This Podcast Will Kill You returns with…
Read review →Special Episode: Dr. Olivia Weisser & The Dreaded Pox
May 12, 2026
In a time when smallpox, tuberculosis, measles, and typhus ran rampant through the streets of London, there was another disease that instilled even more fear than these other killers: syphilis. So…
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Ep 209 Dietary Guidelines Part 2: Why is there protein in everything?
May 05, 2026
If you’ve come across the latest dietary guidelines, a few things may have caught your attention: a big ol’ steak front and center in the new “inverted pyramid”, beef tallow and butter recommended as…
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Ep 208 Dietary Guidelines Part 1: Who’s behind these guidelines?
Apr 28, 2026
Over the decades, dietary guidelines have taken a diverse array of shapes, from pamphlets to wheels, from plates to pyramids. In many cases, the shapes have changed more than the recommendations they…
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Special Episode: Adam Kucharski & Proof
Apr 21, 2026
Why do we believe what we believe? Is what we believe the truth? How can we convince others of our beliefs? If you’ve ever found yourself pondering these questions, you know that the answers are…
Ep 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”?
Apr 14, 2026
Tear gas is an expected, normalized part of protests today. But its use in international war is banned. How can that be? That’s just one of the questions we investigate in this episode. First, we…
Ep 206 Oropouche Virus: More than a smidge worrisome
Apr 07, 2026
Though discovered relatively recently, Oropouche virus has been making headlines as an emerging vector-borne infectious disease on the rise. Not transmitted by the usual suspects (like ticks and…
Ep 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?
Mar 31, 2026
For the entirety of our species’ history, our approach to cancer has largely been to react, to design new therapies and better combinations of treatments. This energy has certainly been well-spent…
Ep 204 Cancer Part 3: How do we treat it?
Mar 24, 2026
A century and a half ago, the list of effective cancer treatments was essentially a single entry: surgery. Today, in 2026, you’d need pages to contain the number of treatments available, and multiple…
Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance
Mar 17, 2026
For centuries, physicians noticed that cancer sometimes ran in families, but until the 1960s, an answer to this mystery remained out of reach. Only then were scientists beginning to unlock the…
Ep 203 Cancer Part 2: Why does it happen?
Mar 10, 2026
Each of our cells can become cancerous. It’s an uncomfortable, yet unavoidable truth. Nor is it a truth restricted to our species - cancer is a consequence of complex life. The features that make a…
Ep 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?
Mar 03, 2026
Cancer has touched every one of us in some capacity, and learning of a diagnosis inspires many more questions than it answers. In this four-part series on cancer, we aim to lay a foundation of…
Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City
Feb 24, 2026
What happens if you put a bunch of rats in an enclosure and provision them with unlimited food and water? Researcher John B. Calhoun was committed to finding out. Results from Calhoun’s “rat utopia”…
Ep 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away
Feb 17, 2026
Poop is an incredibly valuable and massively underutilized resource. However, most of us don’t see it that way because of our evolutionarily ingrained disgust towards poop. Flush toilets and…
Ep 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made
Feb 10, 2026
It might be stinky and it might be unpleasant to behold, but we all do it. For many of us, our poop is out of sight, out of mind once we flush it away. But for the next hour and fifteen minutes or…
Special Episode: Nicola Twilley & Frostbite
Feb 03, 2026
For much of the world, refrigeration is such a commonplace technology that we rarely stop to wonder at the many ways it has transformed our lives. From the foods we grow to where we grow them, from…
Ep 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable
Jan 27, 2026
Now that we know just how critical sleep is, we’re all making sure we get the amount we need, right? Unfortunately no. One-third to one-half of Americans are not getting enough sleep, according to…
Ep 198 Sleep Part 1: Sleeping with one eye open
Jan 20, 2026
Sleep is a universal experience. It’s not just the lion that sleeps tonight - it’s also the butterfly, the chicken, the jellyfish, the dog, the snake, the worm, and of course the human. What is this…
Special Episode: Daniel Stone & American Poison
Jan 13, 2026
The widespread use of leaded gasoline in the 20th century led to one of the world’s biggest public health and environmental disasters, the effects of which are still present today. Since its…
Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone
Jan 06, 2026
Ah, the new year. After the last month and a half of indulgent food and drink, disrupted schedules, and laying around the house, who doesn’t feel like they’re in need of a whole-body cleanse? There…
From the Vault - Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash (Ep 88)
Dec 30, 2025
This episode originally aired on January 11th, 2022. Chances are you know someone with endometriosis, or perhaps you’re affected yourself. But despite its incredibly high prevalence, endo remains…
From the Vault - Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2 (Ep 89)
Dec 23, 2025
This episode originally aired on January 25th, 2022. In light of the recent changes by RFK jr’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) to eliminate the universal birth dose of the…
Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?
Dec 16, 2025
Did your grandma ever warn you against going out in the cold with wet hair because “you’ll catch your death”? Or have you ever tossed a few more carrots into your shopping basket in the hope that…
Special Episode: Dr. Homer Venters & Outbreak Behind Bars
Dec 09, 2025
[Content warning: self-harm, suicide, violence] In this day and age, we are equipped with an abundance of tools and knowledge to fight the spread of disease. Yet what good does that toolkit do if we…
Ep 195 Salt Part 2: The Substance
Dec 02, 2025
We ended last week’s episode on a bit of a cliffhanger: is salt actually bad for us and if so, why does there still seem to be a debate? This week’s episode holds all the answers. We’re sifting…
Ep 194 Salt Part 1: The Seasoning
Nov 25, 2025
Have you ever thrown a pinch of spilled salt over your left shoulder? Or said to someone “well, take his opinion with a grain of salt”? Or looked up the potential salary of a job listing? Salt is so…
Special Episode: Gabriel Weston & Alive
Nov 18, 2025
In an anatomy and physiology class, you may learn how the different heart valves work to circulate your blood, how the structure of your kidney helps to maintain electrolyte levels, and how the…
Ep 193 Necrotizing Fasciitis: A strange beast
Nov 11, 2025
If you were asked to describe necrotizing fasciitis in three words, you might choose: rapid, deadly, and rare. The third of those adjectives may provide some comfort, but the first two are the clear…
Ep 192 New World Screwworm: Oh-oh here they come
Nov 04, 2025
It’s the stuff nightmares are made of. A fly lands on an open wound and lays hundreds of eggs, from which hatch countless ravenous maggots. There they writhe, devouring flesh, insatiable and…
Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal & Dead Ends!
Oct 28, 2025
Science doesn’t always get it right the first time (or the second, or the third, or even the ninety-ninth!). And while we may chuckle at the outlandish things people believed or the goofy experiments…