This Podcast Will Kill You
Hosted by This Podcast Will Kill You · Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts
4.8from 23,463 ratings
- 310
- Episodes
- 112
- Transcribed
- 23,463
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 9M
- YouTube views
About 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.
- Publisher
- Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts
- Category
- health & fitness · science
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Oct 2017
- Latest episode
- 3 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
112 of 310 episodes have a transcript.
3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 226 Glanders: Straight from the horse’s mouth
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris & The Sleuth-Hound
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ep 225 Peptides: What your peptide dealer doesn’t want you to know
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Ep 226 Glanders: Straight from the horse’s mouth
Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] So they're going to lose a lot of weight and end up emaciated. This disease can then progress to involve the respiratory system and the lungs, resulting in a pretty severe pneumonia. And it's very, very often fatal. In contrast, horses tend to have a more chronic, indolent and prolonged disease. […]
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- Lindsey Fitzharris
- Robert Kolker
- Alanna Skuse
- Dr Leonardo Lopez
- Clayton Page Aldern
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- YouTube views
- 9,216,240
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 16,947 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 6,516 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 86 / 100
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- Quality
- 95
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 100
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