• NHPR Extra: Patient Zero

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NHPR Extra: Patient Zero

By: NHPR
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  • 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. Learn more at www.patientzeropodcast.com. A production of New Hampshire Public Radio.
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Episodes
  • Bonus - Lyme AMA (Ask Me Anything)

    Bonus - Lyme AMA (Ask Me Anything)
    Oct 15 2019

    Is it Lyme disease, or Lyme's disease? Can humans take the canine Lyme vaccine? Does everbody infected with Lyme also get coinfections? These are some of the listener questions we attempt to answer in our final Bonus episode. It's the Lyme AMA!

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    44 mins
  • Ep 7: The Reservoir

    Ep 7: The Reservoir
    Oct 2 2019

    Society inadvertently engineers an epidemic. Scientists debate whether or not to engineer the solution.

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    52 mins
  • Ep 6: The Non-A Non-B

    Ep 6: The Non-A Non-B
    Sep 20 2019

    An ambiguous case with no easy answers. Another growing epidemic, and an ethics question that might help explain Lymeworld.

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    48 mins
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