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MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
Audible | Ballen Studios
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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| 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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| 0:14.6 | 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 Ziploc bags. |
| 0:30.6 | It looked like her beloved home was now being used as the set for a science fiction film. |
| 0:35.6 | But the woman knew that the unfolding disaster in front of her |
| 0:38.7 | was all too real. Her daughter had recently become infected by a deadly, mysterious bacteria, |
| 0:46.0 | and nobody had any idea where it had come from. So not only were this woman and her family at risk, |
| 0:52.0 | but thousands of other people could be too. That's why, on this |
| 0:55.7 | warm summer afternoon, officials from the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC for short, were scouring |
| 1:01.7 | this woman's property, gathering samples of soil, plants, food, and other household items for their |
| 1:07.4 | laboratories to analyze. As the woman stood in front of her house out on the road, |
| 1:12.1 | she closed her eyes and prayed that the CDC's search of her home would be successful. |
| 1:17.0 | Something in her house had already nearly killed her daughter. If they couldn't find the source of |
| 1:21.3 | the bacteria, her home would continue to be a danger to the people she loved the most. |
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