Patient Zero

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Introducing: What Remains Oct 24, 2024

Introducing “What Remains,” a special series from NHPR’s Outside/In. A classroom display of human skulls sparks a reckoning at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia. A movement grows to “abolish the collection.” The Penn Museum relents to pressure. But there are more skeletons in the closet. To hear all three parts, including the prologue, subscribe to Outside/In.

Introducing “The Youth Development Center” Jul 15, 2024

Introducing the newest series from NHPR’s award-winning Document team: “The Youth Development Center.” New Hampshire has sent its most troubled kids to the same juvenile detention center for more than a century. It's a place that was supposed to nurture them, that instead hurt them – in some of the worst ways imaginable. It's now at the center of one of the biggest youth detention scandals in American history. How did this happen – and how did it finally come to light?

Listen to the full series, and explore an interactive digital story about the scandal here.

If you have suffered abuse and need someone to talk to, you can call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673. If you’re in a mental health crisis, call the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 9-8-8.

BONUS: Lyme AMA (Ask Me Anything) May 21, 2020

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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BONUS: Patient Otzi May 14, 2020

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

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BONUS: Horses & Zebras May 07, 2020

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

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EP 7: The Reservoir Oct 03, 2019

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

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Ep 6: The Non-A Non-B Sep 26, 2019

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

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Bonus – LYMErix Sep 19, 2019

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

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Ep 5: The Laser Sep 12, 2019

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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Ep 4: The Bell Curve Sep 05, 2019

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

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Ep 3: The Vector Aug 29, 2019

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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Ep 2: The Cluster Aug 22, 2019

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

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Ep 1: The Triangle Aug 15, 2019

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

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Introducing Patient Zero Jul 18, 2019

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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