Ep. 48 | Cold Case

MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

Wondery | Ballen Studios

True Crime

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A teenage girl comes down with unexplainable abdominal pain after spending a few days at a fair. Unbeknownst to her, the same thing is happening to hundreds of teenagers in a completely different state…and doctors can’t figure out what’s causing it.

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0:00.0	Hey Prime members, you can binge episodes 41 through 48 of Mr.
0:04.3	Bollin's medical mysteries right now and add free on Amazon music. Download the
0:09.2	app today. In late September of 1994, a nurse at a small clinic in rural Minnesota scrambled to help the long line of patients check in.
0:26.0	Now normally this clinic was not very busy, but over the past few days
0:30.7	there had been a flood of sick teenagers pouring in. They all had very
0:34.8	similar symptoms, extreme stomach cramps, nausea, diarrhea, and dangerously high
0:39.9	fevers. Doctors at this clinic had not been able to diagnose them yet, and now
0:44.9	this nurse was beginning to worry that this outbreak, whatever it was, was more
0:49.0	than the small clinic could even handle. As yet another nauseous teenager stumbled inside the packed
0:54.4	waiting room, this nurse finally made up her mind. She needed to call in the
0:59.1	Minnesota Health Department to help them figure out what was making all these people sick.
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