Ep. 10 | Sin Nombre
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Audible | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
In the spring of 1993, young, healthy people of the Navajo nation start dying from a mysterious disease that fills their lungs with so much fluid that they suffocate. The CDC’s best scientists scramble to uncover what’s causing it before it spreads – and the answer might lie in a story from ancient Navajo legend.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Prime members, you can binge episode 17 through 24 of Mr. |
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| 0:09.4 | Download the app today. In June of 1993 a doctor for the Centers for Disease Control stood on the Navajo Nation Reservation in the |
| 0:25.3 | southwestern United States. |
| 0:27.6 | He was dressed in a heavy hazmat suit and he was desperate to take off his helmet and |
| 0:31.8 | drink some water. But he couldn't afford to take off his helmet and drink some water. |
| 0:33.7 | But he couldn't afford to take that risk. |
| 0:36.0 | A fatal disease was spreading throughout the area and no one knew what it was. |
| 0:41.2 | But Navajo Elders, who lived here, said the disease was caused by a deadly |
| 0:45.2 | creature known from their ancient legends and as strange as that sounded this |
| 0:49.6 | doctor was actually inclined to believe them. He knew he had to find this creature and |
| 0:55.1 | catch it before more people died. |
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