Ep 1: The Triangle

Patient Zero

NHPR

Life Sciences, Lyme Disease, Society & Culture, Science, Natural Sciences

4.4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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A mysterious illness plagues a Connecticut town. A brief introduction into “Lymeworld”. A lesson on the epidemiological triangle. Click here to donate $20 and get ad-free episodes of Patient Zero a week early and bonus content.

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0:00.0	Let's start with symptoms.
0:04.0	Okay.
0:05.0	What were they?
0:07.0	I was completely exhausted.
0:09.0	I barely keep my eyes open.
0:10.0	My legs felt like lead weights walking up the stairs was really hard and I had a rash
0:20.7	ovalish circularish rash.
0:23.1	Just reddish.
0:25.1	Reddish, yeah.
0:26.5	Sleep okay?
0:28.5	Um, I wanted to sleep all the time.
0:33.2	How long?
0:34.3	Two weeks of that before I finally went to a clinic.
0:38.8	Okay.
0:40.0	What kind of clinic was it?
0:41.7	Convenient MD, I want to say?
0:43.5	Okay, so one of those.
0:44.4	Like a minute clinic kind of thing, yeah.
0:47.7	And they said?
0:49.3	Lyme disease.
0:50.6	Right off the bat?
0:51.1	Yeah. Got tested. Went to work. A few days later I got a call and I was told that I had Lyme disease and that they were going to put me on
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