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Hello, perhaps it isn't so hard right now to imagine a mysterious illness, peculiar in its

symptoms and so contagious that it drives an entire society into a frenzy of anxiety and

suspicion. Yet in February 1692, it isn't COVID-19, but a different kind of virality that

takes hold of the citizens of Salem, Massachusetts.

It starts with nine-year-old Betsy Paris and her 11-year-old cousin Abigail Williams,

who take to screaming, contorting in pain and convulsing in fits. And soon, their entire society

is caught up in its own feverish spiral of wild accusation and conspiracy theory.

In today's program, we'll be thinking about mystery illnesses, like those at the centre of the Salem witch trials, with neurologist Suzanne O'Sullivan.

She's just written a book that puzzles over why we're still struggling to understand mass psychogenic illness in our

contemporary times. We're starting, though, with those feverish 1690s. And if you think you know

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