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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries

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4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Following the epic crossover between MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries and Redacted: Declassified Mysteries, hosted by Luke Lamana, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes where the line between medical mystery and dark conspiracy becomes blurred.

When a quiet town in Oregon is beset by a dangerous Salmonella outbreak, health authorities are baffled by where the toxic bacteria came from. What they find isn’t just surprising – it’s sinister.

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to new episodes of Mr. Bollins Medical Mysteries early and ad-free right now.
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0:14.3	A young doctor carefully maneuvered her way through the crowded hallway of her hospital's emergency room.
0:23.6	It was the middle of the night, but the place was jammed with dozens of patients who had all arrived in the past few hours.
0:29.6	Gurneys filled the hallway because all the beds in the emergency room were now occupied,
0:34.6	and almost every patient the doctor saw was doing the same thing,
0:39.0	grabbing at their stomach and moaning in pain. The doctor stepped aside to make room for a lab technician
0:45.3	who was pushing a rattling cart full of urine and stool samples. And that's when the doctor
0:50.3	bumped into a man on one of those gurneys in the hallway who she'd actually examined
0:54.4	a few hours earlier. And so she hoped he'd be feeling better by now. But when she turned to look at
0:59.5	him, she saw the man was still clutching his abdomen and his hospital gown was stained with vomit.
1:05.3	And as soon as this man looked up and saw the doctor, he began to shout. He demanded to see
1:10.7	his test results right now.
1:12.6	But the doctor explained that everyone at the hospital, all the staff was working as hard as they
1:17.0	could, but they were overwhelmed by all these patients. And so everything was delayed. And his test
1:22.6	results would unfortunately take at least a few more hours. But at this, the man got totally incensed and he sat
1:29.4	up and he actually grabbed a urine sample off the lab tech's cart and threw it at the doctor.
1:35.1	And the doctor managed to duck out of the way before it smashed into the wall. And then suddenly
1:39.5	security was called to deal with this guy. And the doctor just stepped back and couldn't believe the chaos
1:44.8	in front of her. In all her years of practice, she'd never experienced anything like this.
1:51.1	And so she wondered how much bigger this outbreak was going to get, and if it would even ever end.
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