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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Ep. 42 | Deadly Tourist

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

A man vacationing in Germany becomes violently ill, and no medicine is helping. The solution may be hidden somewhere on the man’s home of Vancouver Island… where a deadly outbreak is spreading.

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Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 41 through 48 of Mr.

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Boland's medical mysteries right now and add free on Amazon music. Download the

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app today. On a gray and foggy winter morning, two two sand sanitation workers drove along the winding

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and rugged coastline of Western Canada. Moss-covered pine trees

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towered overhead and they could hear powerful waves crashing onto the shore.

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The workers had been called out here and they could hear powerful waves crashing onto the shore.

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The workers had been called out here

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to dispose of something that had washed up on the beach.

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And when the strip of rocky sand came into view,

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they could see something large and grayish pink lying in the sand.

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It looked about six feet long and from far away it resembled a piece of driftwood or maybe some trash.

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But as they made their way down toward the water, the wind changed directions and an awful smell hit them,

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pungent and rotting.

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That's when they realized, the thing on the beach was the body of a dead porpoise.

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The men put on rubber gloves and masks as they got closer to the bloated sand-covered carcass.

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The men exchanged troubled looks. It was unusual for a porpoise to wash ashore, and this was the third time it had happened this month.

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The sanitation workers wrapped the porpoise up in a tarp and carefully brought it back to their truck.

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Then they hopped into the truck and drove off,

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watching the ocean disappear in the rearview mirror. But as they left, the driver felt a

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shiver run up his spine because he couldn't shake the feeling that something horrible must be lurking off the coast. I'm Ted Con caffeine and this is a man.

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All world knows who you, too, are.

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This summer,

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