Listen Now: MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries
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Nina Innsted
4.6 • 4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The human body is a miracle. But when it’s not working, it can be the stuff of nightmares. On this new series from master storyteller MrBallen, we’re sharing medical horror stories and diagnostic mysteries that are surgically calibrated to make your blood run cold.
From bizarre, unheard-of diseases and miraculous recoveries to strange medical mishaps and unexplainable deaths — you’ll never hear the phrase “heart-stopping” in the same way again. MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between MrBallen and Wondery, the award-winning company behind Dr. Death.
Listen to MrBallen’s Medical Mysteries wherever you get your podcasts: Wondery.fm/MBMM_AG
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| 0:00.0 | We've all been there turning to the internet to self-diagnose inexplicable pains, sudden |
| 0:07.9 | fevers, and strange rashes. Usually it's nothing, but for an unlucky few, these unsuspecting symptoms can start the clock ticking on a terrifying medical mystery. |
| 0:20.0 | Each week on Mr. Bollin's Medical Mysteries podcast, you can expect bizarre, unheard of diseases, |
| 0:27.0 | miraculous recoveries, strange medical mishaps, unexplained deaths, and everything in between. |
| 0:36.0 | Our team has spent countless hours delving into spine-tingling medical mysteries and diagnostic horrors that will send shivers down your spine. |
| 0:46.6 | Like the episode Needle in a Haystack, where a little girl falls prey to a disease so deadly, so rare, that the CDC fears it might be an act of bioterrorism. |
| 0:58.8 | Investigators scrambled to find the source as more patients fell victim, but the answer came from somewhere no one was expecting. |
| 1:08.0 | With each episode, it's become more and more clear that these extraordinary and often terrifying stories reveal just |
| 1:16.1 | how common the uncommon can be. I'm about to play you an episode of Mr. Bollin's Medical Mysteries. |
| 1:24.3 | While you're listening, be sure to follow Mr. Bollin's Medical Mysteries on the |
| 1:28.1 | Wondery App or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:47.2 | In August of 2021, a young woman in Georgia stood on the street watching an amazement as people in white hazmat suits carried dozens of items out of her house |
| 1:51.3 | inside of plastic ziploc bags. It looked like her beloved home was now being used as the set for a science fiction film. |
| 1:58.7 | But the woman knew that the unfolding disaster in front of her was all too real. |
| 2:04.8 | Her daughter had recently become infected by a deadly mysterious bacteria and nobody had any |
| 2:10.0 | idea where it had come from. |
| 2:12.1 | So not only were this woman and her family at risk, but |
| 2:15.4 | thousands of other people could be too. That's why on this warm summer afternoon |
| 2:20.3 | officials from the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC for short, were scouring this woman's property, |
| 2:26.0 | gathering samples of soil, plants, food, and other household items for their laboratories to analyze. |
| 2:32.0 | As the woman stood in front of her house out on the road, |
| 2:35.0 | she closed her eyes and prayed that the CDC's search of her home would be successful. |
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