Patient Zero

  • Author: Vários
  • Narrator: Vários
  • Publisher: Podcast
  • Duration: 5:40:16
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Synopsis

How are medical mysteries solved? And what happens when questions remain? Patient Zero is an investigation of the spaces where people and pathogens collide. This season, 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. A production of New Hampshire Public Radio.

Episodes

  • EP 7: The Reservoir

    03/10/2019 Duration: 54min

    Society inadvertently engineers an epidemic. Scientists debate whether or not to engineer a solution.    Learn more at patientzeropodcast.com

  • Ep 6: The Non-A Non-B

    26/09/2019 Duration: 50min

    An ambiguous case with no easy answers. Another growing epidemic, and an ethics question that might help explain Lymeworld. To get access to bonus episodes as well as early access to our regular episodes, click here. 

  • Bonus – LYMErix

    19/09/2019 Duration: 14min

    In the late 90s you could get vaccinated against Lyme. Now you can't. What gives?   To get access to other bonus episodes, as well as early access to our regular episodes, click here. 

  • Ep 5: The Laser

    12/09/2019 Duration: 47min

    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. To get access to bonus episodes, as well as early access to our regular episodes, click here.

  • Ep 4: The Bell Curve

    05/09/2019 Duration: 42min

    Lyme disease has been called the Great Imitator. And the Lyme disease tests have a fraught history. Click here to donate $20 and get early, ad-free episodes of Patient Zero and bonus content. 

  • Ep 3: The Vector

    29/08/2019 Duration: 28min

    A perfect carrier of disease. A race underneath your skin. The part we know, before we get to the parts we don't. Click here to donate $20 and get ad-free episodes of Patient Zero a week early and bonus content. 

  • Ep 2: The Cluster

    22/08/2019 Duration: 53min

    A meditation on the pace of science.  An investigation in fits and starts. The beginning of a controversy. Click here to donate $20 and get ad-free episodes of Patient Zero a week early and bonus content.

  • Ep 1: The Triangle

    15/08/2019 Duration: 44min

     A mysterious illness plagues a Connecticut town. A brief introduction into “Lymeworld”.  A lesson on the epidemiological triangle. Click here to donate $20 and get ad-free episodes of Patient Zero a week early and bonus content. 

  • Introducing Patient Zero

    18/07/2019 Duration: 03min

    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