Ep. 19 | Life in Paradise/The Stranger
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Wondery | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
“Life in Paradise”
In 1993, a man living in a retirement community in Tennessee falls ill with what he thinks is the flu. But, within hours, he’s comatose and suffering from multiple organ failure. His doctor is stunned, and becomes even more perplexed when the man’s neighbor shows up with the same symptoms. Is it all just a coincidence? Or is a silent killer lurking in the community’s manicured grounds?
“The Stranger”
One day in 2014, an elderly Frenchman comes home to find a stranger hiding in his bathroom. The intruder doesn’t seem dangerous, although something about him feels…off. And when the man discovers who it is, it changes his life forever.
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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. In the summer of 1993, a doctor at a small hospital in Tennessee, |
| 0:20.0 | a doctor at a small hospital in Tennessee paced around inside of his office. |
| 0:25.0 | At the same time, four men were inside of the hospital's ICU or intensive care unit. |
| 0:30.0 | All four were comatose and in critical condition from lung and kidney failure. |
| 0:34.8 | And bizarrely, they had all been diagnosed with the exact same disease. |
| 0:39.1 | And the doctor had no idea how that could be possible. This disease was extremely rare. In the previous year, it had only |
| 0:47.3 | infected about 60 people in the entire country, and what made this outbreak even more intriguing was that all four |
| 0:54.7 | comatose men came from the same retirement community. From what the doctor could tell |
| 0:59.4 | this small community was dealing with a full-on outbreak and if the doctor didn't |
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