Ep. 20 | The Mist

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 2007, a worker at a pork processing plant in Minnesota suffers nerve damage so severe that he can no longer move his legs. Within a few months, his co-workers begin to develop similar alarming symptoms. Investigators search for a common thread, and what they find is more disturbing than anything they could have imagined.

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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 a blustery November morning in 2007 a medical investigator from the Minnesota Department of Health
0:25.0	inspected the slaughterhouse floor of a pork processing plant. She was there to
0:29.8	investigate a troubling outbreak. Over the past year, multiple employees had suffered severe
0:34.8	nerve damage. It was so bad that some of them had even been paralyzed and so far nobody knew
0:40.4	what was causing it.
0:43.2	As the plant's CEO showed the investigator around,
0:46.4	she carefully examined every step of the processing line,
0:49.8	and she couldn't believe how quickly the dead pigs
0:52.2	were broken down into various cuts of meat.
0:55.2	The employees barely had time to finish their tasks before a new pig arrived in front of them.
1:00.7	But otherwise, the investigator thought that everything else seemed to be clean and orderly.
1:05.0	That was until she saw something so horrifying it made her stop in her tracks.
1:11.0	She had never seen something so gruesome, so barbaric, so unsanitary in her whole life.
1:18.0	And if her suspicions were right, this was the reason behind the dangerous outbreak.
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