Patient Zero: Recent Episodes

New Hampshire Public Radio

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.

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

record?

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

Certainty and science.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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