Patient Zero

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.patientzeropodcast.com.

Episodes

July 18, 2019 3 mins

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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 A mysterious illness plagues a Connecticut town. A brief introduction into “Lymeworld”. A lesson on the epidemiological triangle.

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August 22, 2019 51 mins

A meditation on the pace of science.  An investigation in fits and starts. The beginning of a controversy.

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August 29, 2019 25 mins

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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September 5, 2019 39 mins

Lyme disease has been called the Great Imitator. And the Lyme disease tests have a fraught history.

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September 12, 2019 45 mins

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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September 19, 2019 14 mins

In the late 90s you could get vaccinated against Lyme. Now you can't. What gives?

 

 

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September 26, 2019 47 mins

An ambiguous case with no easy answers. Another growing epidemic, and an ethics question that might help explain Lymeworld.

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October 3, 2019 51 mins

Society inadvertently engineers an epidemic. Scientists debate whether or not to engineer a solution.

 

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May 7, 2020 17 mins

The origin of ulcers. The rise and fall of a medical recommendation.
Certainty and science.

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May 14, 2020 15 mins

The earliest known case of Lyme disease? Or the problem with correcting the
record?

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May 21, 2020 43 mins

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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