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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

The Necessity of Patient Zero

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.45.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Patient zero looms large in our collective consciousness. Through carelessness, impropriety or sheer twisted luck, they introduce highly contagious pathogens into new human populations -- if not the human species itself. But where does the science end and

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1:34.0

Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

1:38.0

Hey you welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lamb and I'm Christian Seger and we have both been sick for like two weeks now off and on you and I have been alternating sicknesses.

1:56.0

Yeah yeah I've at least two different illnesses have have managed to wander their way through my household.

2:04.0

My son is on his second illness this week getting over something with a fever and a scratchy throat. I had it a couple of weeks ago and even took it with me to Disney World or right before entering Disney World.

2:18.0

I didn't actually enter the park with with the illness and you went to Disney World the same time I went to Seattle and I caught a lot of people.

2:26.0

I don't know if I got it from you or Jonathan Strickland our colleague had larynjitis last week and he sits across from me but sure enough the day I got on the plane I came down to something and I had a horrible fever by the time I got to Seattle for my vacation and was just shivering. Luckily I had three days I ended up getting better before I attended Emerald City Comic Con last week.

2:51.0

Otherwise I would have been patient zero at Emerald City and infected everybody. The nomenclature that's usually used at big conventions like that is concrus.

3:02.0

Because you just bound to pick something up with that many people breathing on each other and touching each other. I know people who just have like hand sanitizer in their pockets at all time and are just constantly rubbing their hands within their face.

3:14.0

But you know what like you're going to just get it no matter what.

3:18.0

Well it's you're combining several different things here you have the convention where like you say a lot of people tight space.

3:25.0

You know sometimes physical interaction and then on top of that if you were flying there.

3:29.0

Oh yeah.

3:30.0

Then you're in the in the airplane environment. So you're in this sealed tube with all of these coughing hacking breathing people and it's just going to illnesses are going to be passed around.

3:42.0

Like I think I look back on the times when when I've gotten sick with something you know notable and I usually don't don't get that sick.

3:50.0

But it's it generally follows international travel or at least like a long journey by plane.

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