Ep. 20 | The Mist
MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Audible | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 2.9K 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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