Patient Zero
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Patient Zero
How are medical mysteries solved? And what happens when questions remain? Patient Zero is an investigation of the spaces where people and pathogens collide. We take a deep dive in to the history – and mystery – of one of the fastest spreading epidemics of our time: Lyme disease. Learn more at www.pa...
Recent Episodes
12 episodesLyme AMA (Ask Me Anything)
Is it Lyme disease, or Lyme's disease? Can humans take the canine Lyme vaccine? Does everybody infected with Lyme also get co-infections? These are so...
Patient Otzi
The earliest known case of Lyme disease? Or the problem with correcting the
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Horses & Zebras
The origin of ulcers. The rise and fall of a medical recommendation.
Certainty and science.
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The Reservoir
Society inadvertently engineers an epidemic. Scientists debate whether or not to engineer a solution.
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The Non-A Non-B
An ambiguous case with no easy answers. Another growing epidemic, and an ethics question that might help explain Lymeworld.
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The Laser
When it feels like doctors have closed the door to establishment medicine, another set of doors open. These doors lead to dubious providers, and untes...
The Bell Curve
Lyme disease has been called the Great Imitator. And the Lyme disease tests have a fraught history.
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The Vector
A perfect carrier of disease. A race underneath your skin. The part we know, before we get to the parts we don't.
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The Cluster
A meditation on the pace of science. An investigation in fits and starts. The beginning of a controversy.
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The Triangle
A mysterious illness plagues a Connecticut town. A brief introduction into “Lymeworld”. A lesson on the epidemiological triangle.
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Introducing Patient Zero
A first look at Patient Zero, a new podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio.
Hosted by Taylor Quimby. Theme by Ty Gibbons.
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