Infectious, Pt. 4: Anatomy Of An Outbreak
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.1 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2019
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Even considering the winding road of scientific advancement and the new expressway that is the internet, what the heck happened in Clark County? With reporting from the ground in Washington and Oregon, we take the fourth episode of our vaccine series to trace the societal pathogens, identify the symptoms, and try to prescribe a solution to what some are calling a “canary in the coal mine” for a near future of eroding herd immunity and increasing threats of outbreak for all kinds of diseases in the U.S.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the ILAB at WBUR Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | This is part four of Infectious, our special series on vaccines. |
| 0:12.0 | If you haven't already heard parts one through three, you should go listen to those first. |
| 0:16.0 | Okay, enjoy. |
| 0:17.0 | And I have been covering the measles outbreak in Oregon and Washington. |
| 0:21.0 | But where are we right now? And how many beers deeper are we? |
| 0:25.0 | We are currently at Real M in in southeast Portland. |
| 0:30.0 | And at least three beers and one whiskey deep for me. |
| 0:34.0 | Okay. |
| 0:35.0 | I think you're doing a little bit less. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah, I'm three beers. |
| 0:38.0 | I didn't have a whiskey. |
| 0:40.0 | It is mid-March 2019. |
| 0:42.0 | I am in what I am told is a bar that is part of an old Portland in Oregon. |
| 0:47.0 | Real M in. |
| 0:48.0 | And as you can hear, that is not Emory Sebritzen. |
| 0:52.0 | That is a locally based reporter named Molly Harbarger. |
| 0:55.0 | And as you can also hear, we are technically off the clock. |
| 0:59.0 | But we're still recording. |
| 1:01.0 | Molly is welcoming me to the city by regaling me with some of her favorite Oregonian lore. |
| 1:07.0 | And she knows a fair bit. |
| 1:09.0 | Just read her bylines in the Oregonian newspaper. |
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