This Podcast Will Kill You
This podcast might not actually kill you, but it covers so many things that can. Each episode tackles a different disease, from its history, to its biology, and finally, how scared you need to be. Ecologists and epidemiologists Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke make infectious diseases acceptable f
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Life Sciences
Medicine
Science
Ep 109 Chikungunya: Not dengue (or is it?)
Somehow it’s taken us until the penultimate episode ...
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Nov 15 2022 1h 21m
Ep 108 Gout: Toetally fascinating
Although today we tend to think about diseases in te...
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Nov 1 2022 1h 17m
Ep 107 Sepsis: It's a mess
Over the years of the podcast, we have often struggl...
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Oct 18 2022 1h 39m
Ep 106 Turner Syndrome: Let's talk about X
Are you in the mood to chat chromosomes, specificall...
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Oct 4 2022 1h 28m
Ep 105 Down in the Mumps
We’ve covered measles, we’ve taken on rubella, and n...
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Sep 20 2022 1h 17m
Ep 104 The Bends: Industrial Revolution, baby
Don your wetsuit, grab your oxygen tank, and securel...
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Sep 6 2022 1h 44m
Ep 103 Leptospirosis: Don't blame the rats
The story of leptospirosis is chock full of variety....
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Aug 23 2022 1h 15m
Ep 102 Arsenic: Paris Green with Envy
“The king of poisons,” “the poison of kings,” “inher...
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Aug 9 2022 1h 34m
Ep 101 Immortality: This Podcast Won't Kill You
For what was originally going to be our 100th regula...
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Jul 26 2022 1h 14m
Ep 100 Monkeypox: Here we go again?
A little over two years into a pandemic, the last th...
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Jul 12 2022 1h 31m
Ep 99 Salmonella: A hard egg to crack
We’ve all been there: doubled over in pain as stomac...
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Jun 28 2022 1h 37m
Wondery Presents: The Greatest Con Man Ever?
Introducing the true crime podcast Persona: The Fren...
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Jun 27 2022 4m
Ep 98 Folate: Marmite, anyone?
It’s been years since our first (and, until now, onl...
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Jun 14 2022 1h 14m
Special Episode: Snake Venom Evolution
Our snake venom episode last week took us down some ...
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Jun 7 2022 59m
Ep 97 Snake Venom: Collateral Damage
How do you feel about snakes? Intrigued or terrified...
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May 31 2022 1h 30m
Special Episode: Coprolites!
Our tapeworm episode last week mentioned the remarka...
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May 24 2022 53m
Ep 96 Tapeworm: We encyst you listen
We can probably all agree that the thought of a tape...
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May 17 2022 1h 12m
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Special Episode: On the Origin of Epidemiology
The classic tale of epidemiology almost always begin...
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May 10 2022 58m
Ep 95 Tetanus: An inhuman calamity!
[CW: Firsthand account includes description of the d...
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May 3 2022 1h 14m
Special Episode: Chlamydia, Koalas, and More!
Chlamydia trachomatis may have stolen the show in ou...
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Apr 26 2022 58m
Ep 94 Chlamydia: Double Trouble
With this episode, you’re getting much more than you...
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Apr 19 2022 1h 28m
Re-Release: Ep 27 Vaccines Part 2: Have you thanked your immune system lately?
[This episode is a re-release of Ep 27 Vaccines Part...
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Apr 12 2022 2h 13m
Re-Release: Ep 26 Vaccines Part 1: Let's hear it for Maurice
[This episode is a re-release of Ep 26 Vaccines Part...
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Apr 5 2022 2h 5m
Special Episode: Electricity
While last week’s episode covered ample ground...
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Mar 29 2022 46m