Patient Zero
NHPR
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.
- 47 minutes 11 secondsLyme 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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21 May 2020, 8:15 pm - 18 minutes 54 secondsPatient Otzi
The earliest known case of Lyme disease? Or the problem with correcting the
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14 May 2020, 2:45 pm - 19 minutes 47 secondsHorses & Zebras
The origin of ulcers. The rise and fall of a medical recommendation.
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7 May 2020, 12:40 pm - 55 minutes 13 secondsThe Reservoir
Society inadvertently engineers an epidemic. Scientists debate whether or not to engineer a solution.
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3 October 2019, 10:00 am - 51 minutes 9 secondsThe 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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26 September 2019, 10:00 am - 16 minutes 49 secondsLYMErix
In the late 90s you could get vaccinated against Lyme. Now you can't. What gives?
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19 September 2019, 10:00 am - 48 minutes 22 secondsThe 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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12 September 2019, 10:00 am - 42 minutes 49 secondsThe Bell Curve
Lyme disease has been called the Great Imitator. And the Lyme disease tests have a fraught history.
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5 September 2019, 10:00 am - 28 minutes 58 secondsThe 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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29 August 2019, 10:00 am - 54 minutes 45 secondsThe Cluster
A meditation on the pace of science. An investigation in fits and starts. The beginning of a controversy.
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22 August 2019, 10:00 am - 44 minutes 22 secondsThe Triangle
A mysterious illness plagues a Connecticut town. A brief introduction into “Lymeworld”. A lesson on the epidemiological triangle.
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