Patient Zero: The Triangle

Outside/In

NHPR

Society & Culture, Documentary, Natural Sciences, Nature, Science

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

When you're fighting off a cold or flu, it's easy to imagine the battle is being waged solely inside the confines of your body. But in order to spread, pathogens rely on nearly every aspect of our shared societies. Food and drink, social customs, our proximity to animals, urban design, income inequality: The science of epidemiology connects them all. Patient Zero investigates the spaces where people and pathogens collide. It is a story about Lyme disease, but it is also a story about uncertainty, and what to do in the face of it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I want to introduce you to three people.
0:02.6	My name is Alicia.
0:04.4	Alicia, who lives just outside of Philadelphia.
0:07.8	Jess, a Parks and Rec employee currently living in Indiana.
0:11.3	And I've been listening to the podcast since it started, I'm pretty sure.
0:14.5	And Kevin.
0:15.5	I live in St Louis, I'm a special education teacher.
0:17.5	All three of them are pretty big fans of Outside In.
0:20.5	I think I've listened to just about every episode. We think that this show is
0:24.8	fun and interesting and educational. We think that we're teaching people about
0:29.2	stuff they didn't know before. But do we know for sure? No, we do not. Like does anybody remember the stuff
0:36.8	that we talked about last month or last year? Producer Taylor Quimby called up these three
0:41.8	outside-in fans to do a little trivia to test their knowledge about the show and about the natural world that we report on.
0:49.0	Are Shark Attacks more common on the east or west coast of the United States.
0:54.0	Ooh, well I just, you did just have that shark attack episode.
0:57.0	I think it's the west coast.
0:59.0	West coast.
1:00.0	That is correct.
1:01.0	East coast.
1:02.0	You got to go back and listen to the episode.
1:04.0	Yeah, I will.
1:07.0	Which of these birds have we not talked about on the program in some depth. The loggerhead Shrike, the
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