Ep. 33 | Sunless Burn

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In December 1979, young women all over Wisconsin fall ill with a mysterious disease that starts with a bright red rash – and sometimes leads to death. Soon, it’s happening to women all over the United States – and nobody knows why.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 33 through 40 of Mr.
0:04.2	Bollin's Medical Mysteries right now and add free on Amazon Music.
0:08.6	Download the app today. A 40-year-old man stood next to his teenage daughter in a
0:24.1	daughter,
0:21.8	clutching her hand as she laid there unconscious on a gurney.
0:24.8	A flurry of doctors and nurses moved all around them,
0:27.5	securing an oxygen mask over the girl's nose
0:30.2	and jabbing her arms with needles.
0:32.2	The father couldn't believe this was really happening.
0:35.2	Just an hour ago he'd come home to find his daughter, passed out on the floor of the kitchen,
0:39.7	her face and neck were totally beat red. He didn't know what had happened, but his best guess was
0:45.3	that maybe she had accidentally overheated the oven while making food, and then when she opened
0:50.0	up the oven door, a rush of heat came out, and had burned her.
0:54.0	He didn't know what else could make her look so sunburned on such a cloudy December day.
0:59.2	A nurse put her arms on the father's shoulders and told him he needed to step aside.
1:03.5	So the father squeezed his daughter's hand one more time, then let the nurse guide him out
1:08.0	of the hospital room.
1:10.1	The nurse told the father that his daughter's kidneys were failing.
1:12.8	They were going to rush her to the intensive care unit for emergency dialysis.
1:17.0	The father blinked, trying to process what the nurse had just told him.
1:21.0	He didn't understand how his daughter's
1:23.2	burned skin could lead to kidney failure. People died from that. He watched
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