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We've all been there, turning to the Internet to self diagnose inexplicable pains, sudden 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 each week on Mr.
Bolland's Medical Mysteries podcast, you can expect bizarre, unheard of diseases, strange medical mishaps, unexplainable deaths, and everything in between.
Like the episode Needle in a Haystack, where a little girl falls prey to.
A disease so deadly and rare that.
The CDC fears might be an act of bioterrorism.
Investigators scrambled to find the source as more patients fell victim.
But the answer came from somewhere no one was expecting.
With each episode, it's become more and more clear that these extraordinary and often terrifying stories reveal just how common the uncommon can be.
Follow Mr.
Balin's medical mysteries on the Wondery app or wherever you get your podcasts.
In August of 2021, a young woman in Georgia stood on the street, watching in amazement as people in white hazmat suits carried dozens of items out of her house inside of plastic Ziploc bags.
It looked like her beloved home was now being used as the set for a science fiction film.
But the woman knew that the unfolding disaster in front of her was all too real.
Her daughter had recently become infected by a deadly, mysterious bacteria, and nobody had any idea where it had come from.
So not only were this woman and her family at risk, but thousands of other people could be, too.
That's why, on this warm summer afternoon, officials from the Centers for Disease Control, or CDC for short, were scouring this woman's property, gathering samples of soil, plants, food, and other household items for their laboratories to analyze.
As the woman stood in front of her house out on the road, she closed her eyes and prayed that the CDC's search of her home would be successful.
Something in her house had already nearly killed her daughter.