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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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A story of how medical partisanship is born.
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In which we (attempt to) answer your lingering questions related to Lyme disease.
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Life in the Lyme disease petri dish.
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The central controversy of Lymeworld.
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Confusion proliferates. Businesses capitalize.
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Two hikers find a corpse in the alps.
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Lyme spreads. Symptoms multiply.
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The short and strange life of the Lyme vaccine
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Lyme enters the body, and the body reacts.
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Let's think about how fringe ideas become mainstream
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The investigation in Lyme, Connecticut, begins.
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In which we meet, for our purposes, the “Patient Zero” of Lyme disease.
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Patient Zero investigates the spaces where people and pathogens collide.

Bonus - McSweegan v Forschner

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September 12, 201916min 41sec

A prominent foundation and a prominent bureaucrat square off.

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