Ep. 35 | Common Ground

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A boy in Minnesota is rushed to the emergency room with one of the worst food poisoning cases the doctors have ever seen. A short while later, a little girl shows up with the same illness. Soon, cases are popping up throughout the state, leaving some on the brink of death as doctors scramble to figure out 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. Early one morning a concerned mother sat beside her young son inside of a hospital room.
0:22.4	He was lying in the bed curled into a ball and he was drenched with sweat and he was clutching his stomach.
0:27.5	His doctors couldn't figure out what was wrong with him and until they did they couldn't cure him. For now, all they could do was keep the boy
0:35.1	hydrated and hope for a breakthrough. But, judging from how miserable her son looked, it didn't
0:40.9	seem like the doctors were helping at all. The mother was starting to
0:44.0	get worried that her little boy's life was in danger. The mother stood up to call
0:48.1	the nurse when all of a sudden she felt dizzy and lightheaded. She sat back down and realized she was starting to
0:54.7	sweat a lot. This was exactly how her son's illness had started. Whatever he had
1:00.4	now she had it too. What she didn't know though was that thousands of other people were experiencing
1:06.3	the same terrifying symptoms too. This was just the beginning of an outbreak that would spread
1:11.2	across the entire United States, and there was no cure in sight. What does it mean to be black in America?
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