Patient Zero
Patient Zero explores how medical mysteries are solved and what happens when questions remain. The podcast investigates the spaces where people and pathogens collide, taking a deep dive into the history and mystery of one of the fastest-spreading epidemics of our time: Lyme disease. Through this lens, it examines the challenges of understanding and containing infectious diseases.
Episodes
Safe to Drink, Episode 1: You don’t know about this?
A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a chemical. The most basic question — whether the water is safe to drink — doesn’t have a clear answer. Nobody seems to know much about this so-called forever chemical, which is weird… because all of this has all happened before.
From the Document team at New Hampshire Public Radio, Safe to Drink is a four-part series about a water
Lyme 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 some of the listener questions we attempt to answer in this Bonus episode. It's the Lyme AMA!
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Patient Otzi
The earliest known case of Lyme disease? Or the problem with correcting the
record?
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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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LYMErix
In the late 90s you could get vaccinated against Lyme. Now you can't. What gives?
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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 untested treatments.
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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.
First episode drops mid-August. Find more at patientzeropodcast.com
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