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🗓️ 24 September 2024
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When a quiet town in Oregon is beset by a dangerous Salmonella outbreak, the health authorities mobilize to trace it back to the source. What they find isn’t just surprising – it’s sinister.
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0:00.0 | A young doctor carefully maneuvered her way through the crowded hallway of her hospital's emergency room. |
0:14.6 | It was the middle of the night, but the place was jammed with dozens of patients who had all arrived |
0:19.0 | in the past few hours. |
0:21.0 | Guernies filled the hallway because all the beds in the emergency room were now occupied and |
0:25.8 | almost every patient the doctor saw was doing the same thing, grabbing at their stomach and |
0:30.8 | moaning in pain. The doctor stepped aside to make room for a |
0:35.0 | lab technician who was pushing a rattling cart full of urine and stool samples. |
0:38.8 | And that's when the doctor bumped into a man on one of those gurnies in the hallway, who she'd actually |
0:44.2 | examined a few hours earlier. |
0:46.1 | And so she hoped he'd be feeling better by now. |
0:48.9 | But when she turned to look at him, she saw the man was still clutching his abdomen and his hospital gown was stained with vomit. |
0:55.0 | And as soon as this man looked up and saw the doctor, he began to shout. |
1:00.0 | He demanded to see his test results right now, but the doctor explained that everyone at the hospital, all the staff, was working as hard as they could, but they were overwhelmed by all these patients. |
1:10.7 | And so everything was delayed, and his test results would unfortunately take at least a few more hours. |
1:16.0 | But at this the man got totally incensed and he sat up and he actually grabbed a urine sample off the lab tech's cart and threw it at the doctor. |
1:25.6 | And the doctor managed to duck out of the way before it smashed into the wall. |
1:29.4 | And then suddenly security was called to deal with this guy and the doctor just stepped back and |
1:33.9 | couldn't believe the chaos in front of her. In all her years of practice she |
1:38.6 | never experienced anything like this |
1:43.3 | outbreak was going to get and if it would even ever end. |
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