Patient Zero

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

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

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2011

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The greatest mysteries have a shadowy figure at the center—someone who sets things in motion and holds the key to how the story unfolds. In epidemiology, this central character is known as Patient Zero—the case at the heart of an outbreak. This hour, Radiolab hunts for Patient Zeroes from all over the map.

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening...
0:03.1	Okay.
0:04.4	All right.
0:05.6	Okay.
0:07.0	All right.
0:08.5	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:11.4	Radio Lab.
0:11.9	From W. N. Y.
0:13.9	C.
0:14.8	See?
0:15.1	Yeah.
0:16.6	And NPR.
0:20.8	So if we said where we are, I ain't on tape yet?
0:25.5	Starting us off today are our producers Lynn Levy and Sean Cole.
0:30.0	Very pretty day to be on an abandoned island where victims of contagious disease were quarantined.
0:36.2	And one in particular who lived here, died here,
0:41.2	never believing that she was, in fact, sick and dangerous.
0:46.8	So this is a story that she begins when?
0:49.4	Well, it's actually, it starts in 1906, and it doesn't start on the island.
0:53.3	It starts in Oyster Bay. Oh, nice neighbor.
0:55.0	Very nice.
0:56.0	There was this one rich family on vacation there.
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