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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Ep. 44 | Needle in a Haystack

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.71.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

A little girl falls prey to a disease so deadly and rare, the CDC fears it might be an act of bioterrorism. Investigators scramble to find the source, but the answer comes from somewhere nobody was expecting.


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

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

0:09.2

app today. In August of 2021, a young woman in Georgia stood on the street watching an amazement as people in white hazmat suits carried dozens of items out of her house inside of plastic zip-lock bags.

0:31.0

It looked like her beloved home was now being used as the set for a science fiction film.

0:36.4

But the woman knew that the unfolding disaster in front of her was all too real.

0:42.1

Her daughter had recently become infected by a deadly mysterious bacteria and nobody had any idea where it had come from.

0:49.0

So not only were this woman and her family at risk, but thousands of other people could be too.

0:55.2

That's why on this warm summer afternoon, officials from the Centers for Disease Control, or

1:00.0

CDC for short, were scouring this woman's property, gathering samples of

1:04.4

soil, plants, food, and other household items for their laboratories to analyze.

1:08.8

As the woman stood in front of her house out on the road, she closed her eyes and prayed

1:13.8

that the CDC's search of her home would be successful. Something in her house

1:18.0

had already nearly killed her daughter. If they couldn't find the source of the

1:21.8

bacteria, her home would continue to be a danger to the people she loved the most.

1:30.0

Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirroutine.

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And we are the hosts of Red-handed, a weekly true-crime

1:35.5

podcast. Every week on Red-handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

1:39.7

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders, and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

1:45.0

Last year we also started a second weekly show

1:48.0

shorthand which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting

1:52.0

because it's our show and we can do what we like.

1:53.2

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood,

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