Ep. 15 | The Philly Killer

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Throughout the United States, the summer of 1976 is a celebration of two hundred years as a nation. That is, until attendees of a veterans’ conference in Philadelphia start dying of a frightening new disease. As the CDC scrambles to stop the outbreak, the country’s joy turns to terror. Will they stop the spread before a new pandemic emerges?

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episode 17 through 24 of Mr.
0:05.1	Bollin's Medical Mysteries right now and add free on Amazon Music.
0:09.4	Download the app today. On the morning of July 30th, 1976, a young doctor examined an elderly veteran at
0:26.2	Bloomsburg Hospital in Pennsylvania desperately looking for a way to keep this man
0:30.6	alive. His lungs were filling up with fluid,
0:34.2	but no matter how many times the doctor drained them,
0:36.8	the fluid just kept coming back.
0:39.3	The man suddenly began to spasm in his bed
0:41.7	coughing up a bloody pink froth. Dr. Ernest Campbell tried to stay calm,
0:46.3	but he knew he was running out of options. He'd seen people die from respiratory failure before,
0:51.9	but this had progressed faster and more
0:54.4	suddenly than anything he'd ever experienced. And this patient was only one of
0:59.6	several in the hospital with the same disturbing symptoms.
1:03.8	In fact, Dr. Campbell had heard about similar cases appearing across the entire state,
1:09.2	and so he was terrified that this was the onset of a deadly epidemic. if it was there might be no way to stop it. Each week on the Mr. Ballin podcast, now available wherever you get your
1:27.8	podcasts, you'll hear strange dark and mysterious stories about inexplicable
1:32.0	encounters, shocking
1:33.2	disappearances, true crime cases, and everything in between.
1:36.7	So go listen to Mr. Ballin podcast, Strange, Dark, and
1:39.7	Mysterious Stories on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:44.0	What does it mean to be black in America?
1:48.0	An NPR's Black Stories, Black Truths, a collection of stories as very nuanced and dynamic as black experiences.
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