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NHPR Extra: Patient Zero

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When you're fighting off a cold or flu, it's easy to imagine the battle is being waged solely inside the confines of your body. But in order to spread, pathogens rely on nearly every aspect of our shared societies. Food and drink, social customs, our proximity to animals, urban design, income inequality: The science of epidemiology connects them all.

Patient Zero investigates the spaces where people and pathogens collide.

Learn more at www.patientzeropodcast.com.

A production of New Hampshire Public Radio.

New Hampshire Public Radio

When you're fighting off a cold or flu, it's easy to imagine the battle is being waged solely inside the confines of your body. But in order to spread, pathogens rely on nearly every aspect of our shared societies. Food and drink, social customs, our proximity to animals, urban design, income inequality: The science of epidemiology connects them all.

Patient Zero investigates the spaces where people and pathogens collide.

Learn more at www.patientzeropodcast.com.

A production of New Hampshire Public Radio.

New Hampshire Public Radio
6hr 54min
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Life in the Lyme disease petri dish.
October 2, 201952min50.01 MB
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In which we (attempt to) answer your lingering questions related to Lyme disease.
October 15, 201944min 22sec42.67 MB
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The central controversy of Lymeworld.
September 20, 201947min 55sec46.08 MB
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A story of how medical partisanship is born.
September 12, 201916min 41sec24.12 MB
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Confusion proliferates. Businesses capitalize.
September 6, 201945min 11sec43.45 MB
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Two hikers find a corpse in the alps.
September 2, 201914min 57sec21.62 MB
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Lyme spreads. Symptoms multiply.
August 29, 201939min 34sec38.07 MB
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The short and strange life of the Lyme vaccine
August 26, 201913min 52sec20.05 MB
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Lyme enters the body, and the body reacts.
August 22, 201925min 43sec37.12 MB
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Let's think about how fringe ideas become mainstream
August 19, 201917min 33sec25.37 MB
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The investigation in Lyme, Connecticut, begins.
August 15, 201951min 30sec49.52 MB
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In which we meet, for our purposes, the “Patient Zero” of Lyme disease.
August 15, 201941min 30sec59.85 MB
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Patient Zero investigates the spaces where people and pathogens collide.
July 18, 20193min 14sec3.2 MB

Ep 7: The Reservoir

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October 2, 201952min

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

Learn more at patientzeropodcast.com

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Ep 7: The Reservoir
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