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This Podcast Will Kill You - No Spoilers!

This science podcast is about epidemiology but don’t let the scientific term scare you. The show is all about make the history, biology, and all other aspects of diseases easy to understand. There is a major focus on infectous dieases although noncommunicable ones are included occasionally. A product of the Exactly Right network (home to My Favorite Murder and Tenfold More Wicked) is hosted by disease ecologists and epidemiologists Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke. Every episode the show starts with an account of a survivor which gives light to the all too often neglected human and social impacts. Then the two spilt the research they’ve done on the world’s smallest serial killers and present it to each other and the listeners. It makes for a complete rundown of diseases we’ll most likely never expierence thanks to public health initiatives. You’ll also learn a themed drink recipe for each episode. Apple podcasts has 4.8 stars, and a little under 15,000 ratings. There’s plenty of content with 134 episodes so far and new ones coming out every Thursday.. or Friday. On average the episodes are about an hour long although some episodes can go much longer. While the longer ones are hard to get through, the two are trying to be as thorough as possible. The most popular episodes according to Owltail are Ep 12 HIV/AIDS: Apathy Will Kill You and Ep 50 Antibiotics: We owe it all to chemistry!. The most interesting to me so far have been Ep 65 Sweating Sickness: Ready, Sweat, Go! and Ep 39 Toxoplasmosis: Calling All Cats. One of my favorite things a show can have is a book recommendation list of their sources on Bookshop.org and this one has one. Overall a really great podcast to add to your subscriptions although beware listening too much may cause anxiety for some.

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Musical Artist: Leo Tebele
Song: Feeling Close Featuring Layla
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ltebele