Patient Zero

Season 1

1. Introducing Patient Zero

   Show notes

   A first look at Patient Zero, a new podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio.

   Hosted by Taylor Quimby. Theme by Ty Gibbons.

   First episode drops mid-August. Find more at https://www.patientzeropodcast.com/

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   Jul 18, 2019 5 min

2. The Triangle

   Episode 1

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   A mysterious illness plagues a Connecticut town. A brief introduction into “Lymeworld”. A lesson on the epidemiological triangle.

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   Aug 15, 2019 44 min

3. The Cluster

   Episode 2

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   A meditation on the pace of science. An investigation in fits and starts. The beginning of a controversy.

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   Aug 22, 2019 55 min

4. The Vector

   Episode 3

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   A perfect carrier of disease. A race underneath your skin. The part we know, before we get to the parts we don't.

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   Aug 29, 2019 29 min

5. The Bell Curve

   Episode 4

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   Lyme disease has been called the Great Imitator. And the Lyme disease tests have a fraught history.

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   Sep 5, 2019 43 min

6. The Laser

   Episode 5

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   When it feels like doctors have closed the door to establishment medicine, another set of doors open. These doors lead to dubious providers, and untested treatments.

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   Sep 12, 2019 48 min

7. LYMErix Bonus

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   In the late 90s you could get vaccinated against Lyme. Now you can't. What gives?

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   Sep 19, 2019 17 min

8. The Non-A Non-B

   Episode 7

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

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   Sep 26, 2019 51 min

9. The Reservoir

   Episode 8

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

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   Oct 3, 2019 55 min

10. Horses & Zebras Bonus

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    The origin of ulcers. The rise and fall of a medical recommendation.
    Certainty and science.

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    May 7, 2020 20 min

11. Patient Otzi Bonus

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    The earliest known case of Lyme disease? Or the problem with correcting the
    record?

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    May 14, 2020 19 min

12. Lyme AMA (Ask Me Anything) Bonus

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

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    May 21, 2020 47 min

1. Safe to Drink, Episode 1: You don’t know about this?

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   A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a chemical. The most basic question — whether the water is safe to drink — doesn’t have a clear answer. Nobody seems to know much about this so-called forever chemical, which is weird… because all of this has all happened before.

   From the Document team at New Hampshire Public Radio, Safe to Drink is a four-part series about a water contamination story that keeps repeating in town after town — and about the people who fought for answers through a maze of chemistry, regulations, and illnesses.

   You can binge the whole series now: subscribe to Safe to Drink on Apple Podcasts, or check out their page on NHPR’s website.

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   Jan 29, 2026 34 min

2. Introducing “Bear Brook: A Private Matter”

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   Today, we're sharing the season three premiere of Bear Brook, the critically acclaimed true crime podcast from New Hampshire Public Radio's Pulitzer Prize-nominated Document team. Bear Brook returns with A Private Matter, hosted by award-winning journalist Jason Moon.

   This season, Jason investigates the disappearance of Jay Hickey, a beloved Christmas tree farmer with dementia who vanishes from his small New Hampshire town. His wife Patty never reports him missing. And it turns out, that's not necessarily a crime in New Hampshire. What follows is a story about family estrangement, the growing dementia crisis, and the legal gaps that leave vulnerable people behind.

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   Oct 22, 2026 27 min