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This blood curse will claim your entire family - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: real medical cases that are totally wild. And in each
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Speaker 1: of these stories, the patient or patients appear to have
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Speaker 1: no hope, like they are just doomed and nobody knows why.
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Speaker 1: But eventually, when the doctor or doctors finally figure out
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Speaker 1: what was actually wrong, it turned everything the patients and
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Speaker 1: get into today's stories. One hot afternoon in May of
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Speaker 1: eighteen ninety one, a thirty one year old businessman named
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Speaker 1: James Hatcher rushed through the small town of Pikeville, Kentucky,
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Speaker 1: and as he made his way, he could feel people
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Speaker 1: staring at him. Because he knew he very likely looked crazy.
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Speaker 1: His hair was totally wild, as his suit that he
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Speaker 1: had slept in the night before was all rumpled from
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Speaker 1: sleeping in it, and he was swatting at all the
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Speaker 1: flies that were buzzing around his head. Flies were very
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Speaker 1: common in this part of Kentucky in the spring. But
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Speaker 1: right now, James did not care what anybody thought, because
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Speaker 1: his only focus at this very moment was just getting
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Speaker 1: to the town doctor's office, because in his hand he
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Speaker 1: held this legal document that he was sure would put
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Speaker 1: an end to the psychological torture he'd been enduring ever
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Speaker 1: since his wife had died. So up until very recently,
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Speaker 1: James had had sort of a charmed, perfect life. Even
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Speaker 1: though he was a pretty young guy, he was still
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Speaker 1: one of the richest men in town. He'd made his
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Speaker 1: fortune in coal and real estate, and in fact, he
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Speaker 1: actually owned most of Pikeville where he was. But more
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Speaker 1: than having lots of money and resources, the real thing
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Speaker 1: that had made him so happy and really fulfilled his
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Speaker 1: life was that he'd had this great marriage to his wife, Octavia,
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Speaker 1: and last year they had gotten pregnant with their first child,
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Speaker 1: and it just seemed like everything was coming up roses.
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Speaker 1: But then four months ago, tragedy had struck. Their baby
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Speaker 1: had died just hours after being born, and it was
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Speaker 1: arguably the worst thing that had ever happened to James
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Speaker 1: or his wife. That is until just last week when
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Speaker 1: Octavia herself had died. The doctor had told James that
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Speaker 1: his wife had died from a broken heart from losing
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Speaker 1: her child. It had just been so much it had
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Speaker 1: killed her. And during the chaos of making the arrangements
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Speaker 1: for the funeral and just grappling with this overwhelming grief,
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Speaker 1: not only for the loss of his child still but
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Speaker 1: now his wife is well, I mean, his life is
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Speaker 1: wrecked here. James had not questioned the cause of death,
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Speaker 1: he had just accepted it. But after the funeral, when
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Speaker 1: James was back inside of his mansion, now all by
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Speaker 1: himself because his family has been wiped out here, he
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Speaker 1: found himself just like unable to live. I mean, he
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Speaker 1: couldn't sleep, he couldn't go to work, he couldn't do anything.
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Speaker 1: All he could do was just pace around the mansion
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Speaker 1: by himself, just obsessing over how in the world this
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Speaker 1: could have happened. How could he have lost his child
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Speaker 1: and his wife, you know, a week apart. How could
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Speaker 1: that have happened? He had a perfect life. How could
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Speaker 1: this be? And the more he obsessed over this unbelievable loss,
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Speaker 1: the more he began to question specifically how his wife
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Speaker 1: had died, because again he had been told by the
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Speaker 1: doctor she had died of a broken heart, but he
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Speaker 1: was thinking, wait a minute, I just don't buy that diagnosis.
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Speaker 1: There's got to be something else now. Of course, it
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Speaker 1: was true that Octavia was completely devastated after losing her baby.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she and her husband both were devastated. But
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Speaker 1: people did not die of sadness, not really. I mean,
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Speaker 1: they can decline rapidly, but to literally die from a
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Speaker 1: broken heart just seemed impossible. And so now the question
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Speaker 1: of what really had killed his wife was all James
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Speaker 1: could think about. It was like, instead of just grieving
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Speaker 1: the loss of his wife and his child, it was
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Speaker 1: like he needed to solve what happened to his wife
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Speaker 1: for real, and pretty quickly, James decided that the only
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Speaker 1: real way to figure out what happened to his wife
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Speaker 1: was not going and talking to the doctor again, or
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Speaker 1: reading literature you know about various symptoms that could have
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Speaker 1: been hers and try to tie it to some disease
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Speaker 1: or something. No, he realized that the best thing he
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Speaker 1: could do is just go dig his wife up and
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Speaker 1: have a look. So James had convinced a local judge
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Speaker 1: to order an emergency exhumation, you know, to dig up
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Speaker 1: his wife, and the judge that said yes, and he
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Speaker 1: had given him a legal document saying he could do that,
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Speaker 1: and so that legal document was what he was carrying
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Speaker 1: as he hustled through town looking totally crazy on his
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Speaker 1: way to the town doctor's office, because it was ultimately
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Speaker 1: the town doctor who would actually examine his wife's body
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Speaker 1: once the exhumation was complete. And so James he finally
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Speaker 1: reaches the doctor's office and he bangs on the door,
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Speaker 1: and eventually the doctor opened up, sort of looking at
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Speaker 1: this guy, who again looks totally wild, you know, frumpled suit, hair,
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Speaker 1: crazy flies everywhere, and he's like, hey, you know what's
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Speaker 1: going on? And James he just hands over this legal document,
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Speaker 1: the order that says he's going to exhume his wife,
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Speaker 1: and the doctor took the order and he read it
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Speaker 1: and he kind of looked up at James with almost
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Speaker 1: like a look of sympathy on his face, like he
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Speaker 1: felt bad for James, Like, obviously, this man's life has
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Speaker 1: just fallen to shambles here. Now. The doctor was clearly
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Speaker 1: prepared to fulfill this order and to look at his
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Speaker 1: wife's body, but he made a point of telling James that,
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Speaker 1: you know, digging up Octavia now just was not a
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Speaker 1: good idea. It wouldn't change what happened, and it definitely
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Speaker 1: would not bring her back, Like this is not the
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Speaker 1: move here. But James knew all this, and he really
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Speaker 1: didn't care about anything the doctor was saying, because he
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Speaker 1: wasn't trying to bring his wife back. He just wanted
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Speaker 1: to know the truth he had to. And so later
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Speaker 1: that afternoon, James and the doctor stood by Octavia's tombstone
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Speaker 1: as a pair of cemetery workers dug up her grave.
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Speaker 1: And it was so hot outside that James and the
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Speaker 1: doctor were sweating profusely and these these flies are everywhere.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of a miserable scene here. But James,
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Speaker 1: I mean, he was just kind of overcome by this,
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Speaker 1: the sense of almost dread, like he definitely wanted to
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Speaker 1: do this, but he's realizing that any moment here after
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Speaker 1: these guys dig up this grave, that he's going to
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Speaker 1: physically see his wife again, his dead wife, And he
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Speaker 1: didn't really know how he was going to feel, like
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Speaker 1: literally seeing her in the condition that she was going
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Speaker 1: to be in, you know, decomposed, but he knew this
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Speaker 1: was the right thing to do. So he just sat there,
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Speaker 1: you know, swatting it flies, sweating profusely, just just waiting,
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Speaker 1: and eventually one of the workers with their shovel they
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Speaker 1: dug into the ground and it struck something hard. It
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Speaker 1: was the coffin, and so at that point James and
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Speaker 1: the doctor that kind of leaned into the hole to
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Speaker 1: look down, and one of the workers got to the
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Speaker 1: side and lifted up the lid of the coffin and
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Speaker 1: inside was Octavia. But Octavia was not in the same
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Speaker 1: position she had been in when she was lowered into
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Speaker 1: the ground. She was sort of in this position with
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Speaker 1: her hands up and across the top the inside top
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Speaker 1: of the actual coffin where all these deep gouges like
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Speaker 1: scratch marks on the inside of the coffin, and Octavia's
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Speaker 1: nails were all flipped backwards. So shortly after James buried
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Speaker 1: his wife, you know, he's totally heartbroken. He's questioning, you know,
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Speaker 1: the doctor's diagnosis of what actually killed her. And in
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Speaker 1: that period of time, over those few days after the funeral,
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Speaker 1: there were several people in Pikeville that came down with
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Speaker 1: a mysterious illness. They almost appeared to be dead, but
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Speaker 1: it would turn out it was just from being bit
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Speaker 1: by these flies that were swarming around everybody this spring.
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Speaker 1: And so James, as he's thinking about his wife and
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Speaker 1: like what really killed her, he began to have this
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Speaker 1: this panicked thought, but that maybe his wife hadn't died
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Speaker 1: at all. Forget the broken heart thing. Maybe she had
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Speaker 1: just been bit by a fly and appeared to be dead,
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Speaker 1: and now I've buried her, And so we had to
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Speaker 1: get her up a zoomer and check. And when he
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Speaker 1: opened up the coffin, he saw he was right. She
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Speaker 1: had not died of a broken heart. She clearly had
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Speaker 1: been bit by a fly. She woke up underground in
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Speaker 1: her coffin and slowly asphyxiated while trying to burrow her
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Speaker 1: way back out again. Shortly after James had buried his
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Speaker 1: wife in the ground, like in those subsequent few days,
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Speaker 1: he noticed several people in Pikeville, where he lived, had
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Speaker 1: come down with something they called sleeping sickness, which is
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Speaker 1: something you get from being bit by one of those
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Speaker 1: flies that are always buzzing around these folks heads in
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Speaker 1: this town in the spring. And you know, sleeping sickness
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Speaker 1: sometimes can take the form of just having like a
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Speaker 1: fever and being very achy, but in some cases, really
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Speaker 1: bad sleeping sickness can cause people to drift into a
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Speaker 1: coma for several days. You know, sometimes they wake up up,
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Speaker 1: but sometimes they don't. They die or others, like the
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Speaker 1: sleeping sickness is so severe that it causes their their
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Speaker 1: heart rate to drop so low that they're not in
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Speaker 1: a coma, but they almost like give the impression of
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Speaker 1: being dead. And so sleeping sickness basically mimics death and
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Speaker 1: sometimes causes death, but some people do come out of it.
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Speaker 1: And so James, he's seeing all these people have this illness,
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Speaker 1: and he began to wonder, well, wait a minute, I'm
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Speaker 1: already questioning my wife's diagnosis. What if something even worse happened.
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Speaker 1: What if she wasn't even dead, What if she had
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Speaker 1: just gotten bit by one of those flies and had
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Speaker 1: sleeping sickness. And so, in a panic, he has her
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Speaker 1: exhumed and when he opens the coffin, what does he
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Speaker 1: see all the signs in the world that his wife
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Speaker 1: had not been dead, So she did not die of
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Speaker 1: a broken heart. No, she was alive when she was buried,
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Speaker 1: and at some point she woke up, but she was
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Speaker 1: trapped and she slowly asphyxiated while trying to claw her
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Speaker 1: way out. She must have been bit by a fly
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Speaker 1: and got sleeping sickness. One morning in early twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: a twenty four year old woman named Rosa Sanchez laid
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Speaker 1: in a hospital bed inside of a National medical center
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Speaker 1: in Lima, Peru. And while she lay in her bed,
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Speaker 1: Rosa was sort of vaguely aware of doctors and nurses
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Speaker 1: and a small group of strangers sort of leering over her,
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Speaker 1: staring at her like she was some kind of medical anomaly.
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Speaker 1: But Rosa really couldn't pay attention to anyone right now,
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Speaker 1: because right now she was feeling sicker than she ever
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Speaker 1: had felt in her whole life. Her stomach hurt so
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Speaker 1: much that it felt like, you know, she was rotting
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Speaker 1: from the inside out or something. And at the same
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Speaker 1: time she was having this awful physical symptom, she was
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Speaker 1: also feeling incredibly depressed and overwhelmed. With guilt. So just
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Speaker 1: a few months ago, Rosa had been a happy, successful
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Speaker 1: college student working towards a degree in economics. But then
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Speaker 1: there had been this outbreak, this sudden disease outbreak at
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Speaker 1: her school, and a bunch of students, including Rosa, had
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Speaker 1: gotten sick with some kind of mysterious illness that still
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Speaker 1: had not been identified. And Rosa had gotten so sick
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Speaker 1: she actually had to temporarily drop out of school and
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Speaker 1: move back home with her mother and father and two
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Speaker 1: little siblings. And it was at that time that something
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Speaker 1: truly just tragic and unimaginable happened. Rosa when she came home,
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Speaker 1: was still sick, and she wound up infecting her entire family,
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Speaker 1: all four of them, and within weeks they all died.
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Speaker 1: Rosa's still alive, but her family is now wiped out
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Speaker 1: from this disease that she still had. And so Rosa
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Speaker 1: now is not only dealing with this horrific illness that
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Speaker 1: feels like it's killing her, but she's living with the
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Speaker 1: reality that in her mind, she caused the deaths of
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Speaker 1: her whole family. And so this is just like the
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Speaker 1: worst possible scenario anybody could be. And so now in
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Speaker 1: the hospital Rosa, who's sort of just totally out of it.
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Speaker 1: She's racked with pain in her stomach. She could tell
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Speaker 1: that a doctor had actually moved up right next to
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Speaker 1: her bedside, and he began telling her some of the
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Speaker 1: results from the recent diagnostic testing they had been running
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Speaker 1: on her. And the doctor told her that, you know,
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Speaker 1: they had run all these blood work tests, and they
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Speaker 1: had done these imaging scans, but so far everything had
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Speaker 1: come back normal, and so they still didn't know what
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Speaker 1: was wrong with her. However, the doctor did say that
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Speaker 1: he wanted to try a different kind of test that
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Speaker 1: might be able to tell them a little bit more.
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Speaker 1: He explained that since Rosa's basic imaging scans had come
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Speaker 1: back normal, what he wanted to do now was try
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Speaker 1: a more advanced type of imaging known as a spect scan.
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Speaker 1: Before she could even ask what a spec scan was,
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Speaker 1: he explained to her that what it would be is
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Speaker 1: she would be injected with this radioactive substance and then
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Speaker 1: after that they would have her lie down inside of
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Speaker 1: this machine that could basically trace the substance as it
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Speaker 1: moved through her body. Basically, this would allow doctors to
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Speaker 1: not just look at Rosa's internal organs, but to actually
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Speaker 1: see how they were functioning in real time. Hearing this,
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Speaker 1: Rosa couldn't help but be a little weary of the
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Speaker 1: idea of a radioactive substance being injected into her body.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, I mean, her life is
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Speaker 1: in shambles. She basically knows this disease is probably going
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Speaker 1: to kill her at some point, and so she was
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Speaker 1: desperate enough to try anything, so she closed her eyes
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Speaker 1: and just nodded, yes, she would try this new scan.
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Speaker 1: About an hour later, Rosa was laying on this long,
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Speaker 1: thin platform right outside of the spec scan machine, which
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Speaker 1: was like this big machine that was shaped kind of
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Speaker 1: like a doughnut with an opening large enough for her
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Speaker 1: to be basically slid in through horizontally. By this point,
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Speaker 1: Rosa had already been injected with this radioactive substance, and
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Speaker 1: now the same doctor who had suggested this scan in
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Speaker 1: the first place stood right beside her and told her
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Speaker 1: that the actual scan would only take maybe you know,
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes when she was inside of this this machine,
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Speaker 1: and all she would have to do during the scan
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Speaker 1: was just lie perfectly still. So Rosa said, okay, and
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Speaker 1: then she heard the doctor leave the room. A moment later,
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Speaker 1: the spec machine began making the whirring sound, at which
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Speaker 1: point the platform that Rosa was laying on began moving
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Speaker 1: and she was brought inside of this this machine, inside
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Speaker 1: of the doughnut, and then eventually the platform stopped, and
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Speaker 1: at that point she's just looking at the inside of
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Speaker 1: this machine, which was just you know, white plastic all
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Speaker 1: around her. And for a couple of minutes, as this
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Speaker 1: scan began and Roses just laying there, you know, being
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Speaker 1: as still as possible, everything seemed fine, you know, she
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Speaker 1: had never done a spec scan before. But then out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere, pain ripped through Rosa's abdomen, which was already
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Speaker 1: in pain, but this was a new pain. It was
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Speaker 1: so severe, like she knew she was supposed to stay still,
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Speaker 1: but she couldn't help but sort of lean forward from
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Speaker 1: how much pain was in her gut. And then as
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Speaker 1: she's telling herself to stay calm, she began feeling lightheaded,
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Speaker 1: and she had tunnel vision and she began to panic.
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Speaker 1: She's claustrophobic, and then before long her ears were ringing,
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Speaker 1: and then it was like everything just kind of faded.
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Speaker 1: Her vision went black, and Rosa died and the he's
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Speaker 1: outside of the room and he's hearing and seeing in
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Speaker 1: real time Rosa basically dying, and so as fast as
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Speaker 1: he can, he shuts off the spec machine, which immediately
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Speaker 1: causes the platform that she is on to automatically go
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Speaker 1: back out of the machine. And so as the doctor
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Speaker 1: runs into the room, he sees Rosa just lying there
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Speaker 1: on this platform outside of the machine, and she's completely limp,
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Speaker 1: like she's lifeless. But the doctor was thinking the scan
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Speaker 1: had actually worked. It told him exactly what was wrong
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Speaker 1: with Rosa. What the scan had shown the doctor before
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Speaker 1: Rosa died was that Rosa had severely low blood flow
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Speaker 1: to several crucial areas of her brain, and this lack
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Speaker 1: of blood flow was what had actually caused all of
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Speaker 1: her symptoms. But this was actually really good news because
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Speaker 1: now the doctor simply leaned over Rosa, looked into her
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Speaker 1: wide open eyes, and told her to please just go
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Speaker 1: ahead and sit up, because Rosa was not dead. She
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Speaker 1: just thought she was. It would turn out Rosa was
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Speaker 1: suffering from two extremely rare psychological disorders. The first was
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Speaker 1: known as catard syndrome, and it caused Rosa to believe
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Speaker 1: that she was literally rotting from the inside out, and
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Speaker 1: then eventually that she died. She literally believed that she
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Speaker 1: had died inside of the scanner and the second rare
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Speaker 1: psychological disorder was cap Cross syndrome. It had caused Rosa
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Speaker 1: to think that many of the people close to her,
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Speaker 1: like her classmates and her own family members, had gotten
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Speaker 1: sick and died from this mystery illness, and then they
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Speaker 1: had been replaced by clones. The reality here was that
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Speaker 1: there actually was never any disease outbreak at Rosa's school
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Speaker 1: or in her home. The group of strangers in Rosa's
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Speaker 1: hospital room were her mother, father, and two siblings. They
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Speaker 1: were perfectly fine. As for Rosa herself, you know, she
16:55
Speaker 1: was obviously mentally very unwell, but physically she was never
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Speaker 1: sick at all. Now Rosa would need continued psychiatric care,
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Speaker 1: but after three weeks in the hospital, she was able
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Speaker 1: to go home with the family that she believed she
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Speaker 1: had lost forever. In the spring of nineteen eighty eight,
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Speaker 1: a twenty seven year old woman named Sabina stood in
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Speaker 1: the corner of a small adobe house in the rural
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Speaker 1: village where she lived in the mountains of Bolivia. The
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Speaker 1: house belonged to a Currandero, which was a traditional healer.
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Speaker 1: Saverina had come here with her two aunts because her
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Speaker 1: aunts were sick and in desperate need of help from
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Speaker 1: the curran Daro. So two weeks earlier, Saverina's aunts had
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Speaker 1: come down with these horrible fevers, and they had been
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Speaker 1: in bed for days, and they had both been so
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Speaker 1: tired and so weak that they could barely move or
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Speaker 1: even eat. However, despite eating, both of their stomachs had
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Speaker 1: swollen up like balloons, and then the skin on the
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Speaker 1: outside of their stomachs had actually turned black, almost like
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Speaker 1: the skin itself was dying. And it was at that
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Speaker 1: point that Savareena decided that her aunts could no longer
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Speaker 1: afford to just hope this goes away on its own.
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Speaker 1: They needed to go see a professional, go see the
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Speaker 1: local healer. And so now Severina watched as her two
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Speaker 1: aunts were told by the Currandaro to lie down on
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Speaker 1: these mats in the middle of the floor. And both
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Speaker 1: aunts are very weak and sick, but they lie down,
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Speaker 1: and the Currandaro, as they're lying down, lit incense and
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Speaker 1: began waving it over their bodies, and then he inspected
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Speaker 1: their faces and also their black stomachs. Then a moment later,
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Speaker 1: he turned his attention to this folded up blanket that
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Speaker 1: was sitting near the aunt's hits. He took the blanket
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Speaker 1: and he unfurled it and sort of laid it out
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Speaker 1: in front of him, and then wrapped up inside of
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Speaker 1: this blanket was a small pile of coca leaves, and
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Speaker 1: the Currandero he picked out a few of these leaves
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Speaker 1: and just sort of appeared to scatter them on the blanket,
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Speaker 1: and then he appeared to study leaves like he was
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Speaker 1: looking for signs that the leaves were going to give him,
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Speaker 1: and Severina knew that these leaves were telling him what
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Speaker 1: was wrong with her aunts. Finally, the Curran Arrow, after
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Speaker 1: looking at these leaves for a bit, he looked up
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Speaker 1: at Severina and told her that her aunts were sick
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Speaker 1: with a blood curse, which meant that the blood flowing
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Speaker 1: through their veins was literally cursed with dark magic. But
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Speaker 1: that wasn't all. The Curran Arrow went on telling Severina
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Speaker 1: that this was actually not just a blood curse, but
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Speaker 1: it was a family blood curse, which meant that someday
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Speaker 1: she Severina would also get this curse and very likely die.
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Speaker 1: When Severina heard this, a chill ran through her body,
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Speaker 1: and she almost instinctively began scratching at her arms, like
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Speaker 1: she could scratch this curse, you know, out of her
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Speaker 1: skin or something. But the Currandaro looked at her and
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Speaker 1: just said, there's nothing you can do. There's no cure
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Speaker 1: for you or your aunt's your fate and theirs is sealed.
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Speaker 1: A few days later, Severina was back in her own home,
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Speaker 1: in her own kitchen, making some herple tea for her aunts,
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Speaker 1: who were staying in her guest bedroom. And as she
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Speaker 1: prepared this tea, all she could hear was the sound
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Speaker 1: of her aunts moaning in pain and agony in the
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Speaker 1: other room. So Severina as quickly as she could, she
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Speaker 1: finished making the tea and then hustled into the guest bedroom.
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Speaker 1: So over the past few days after leaving the Corindero's hut,
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Speaker 1: Severina's aunts had gotten sicker and sicker and sicker. They
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Speaker 1: now couldn't eat anything, and they were constantly so dizzy
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Speaker 1: that could barely even lift their heads up off their pillow.
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Speaker 1: And they both just seemed so weak and so depleted,
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Speaker 1: and their stomachs were still black and bloated, and they
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Speaker 1: had these agonizing stomach cramps basically all the time. It
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Speaker 1: was obvious that they were dying, and their sickness had
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Speaker 1: just been horrifying for Severina to watch on many levels.
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Speaker 1: And so at this point, all Severina was really trying
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Speaker 1: to accomplish was just doing her best to try to
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Speaker 1: make her aunts as comfortable as possible until they died.
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Speaker 1: And so now Severina walked over and she sort of
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Speaker 1: assisted one of the aunts and had them sit up,
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Speaker 1: and she tried to give her some of this tea
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Speaker 1: that she had made, but when her aunt just smelled
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Speaker 1: the herbal tea, she began to dry heave, and Severena
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Speaker 1: jumped out of the way just as her aunt threw
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Speaker 1: a bile all over her own lap. Immediately, the smell
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Speaker 1: of this vomit and the smell of death and just
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Speaker 1: the smell of filth that was filling this room, it
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Speaker 1: just went right up Separina's nostrils and she had to
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Speaker 1: immediately run from the room and go outside, where she
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Speaker 1: vomited just from being so grossed out by being in
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Speaker 1: that room. Seburina felt completely overwhelmed by what was happening here.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she obviously was just devastated to see her
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Speaker 1: aunts in this condition. But what was even worse is
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Speaker 1: it was like she was sort of watching what was
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Speaker 1: going to happen to her, and she just couldn't believe it.
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Speaker 1: And so she thought to herself, any day now, I'm
21:49
Speaker 1: going to begin showing symptoms that shows I too have
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Speaker 1: this blood curse, and I'm going to begin withering away
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Speaker 1: and then rotting until I die. And as she had
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Speaker 1: this thought, she found herself again and scratching at her
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Speaker 1: arms as if somehow she could rip this illness out
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Speaker 1: of her body before it took her life. Later that
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Speaker 1: same night, after Severina had composed herself and gone back
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Speaker 1: into the house, she had seen that her aunts did
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Speaker 1: need more tea, and so she had left to go
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Speaker 1: get more herbal tea remedies from the curandero. But after
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Speaker 1: getting it and coming back to her house, she found
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Speaker 1: that both of her aunts by this point, had died,
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Speaker 1: and the moment she saw them, Severina was overcome with
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Speaker 1: both grief and also fear. Over the next few weeks
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Speaker 1: as she buried her aunts and grieved for them alongside
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Speaker 1: her family, what she really was thinking about is when
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Speaker 1: is this blood curse going to kill me too? And
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Speaker 1: as months turned into years, and still she didn't get sick.
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Speaker 1: Severina began to wonder if maybe the Curandero had been wrong,
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Speaker 1: maybe she didn't have this blood curse, maybe it wasn't
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Speaker 1: a family curse. But then thirty years later, in the
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Speaker 1: fall of twenty eighteen, when Severina was fifty seven years old,
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Speaker 1: she woke up one morning with a stomach cramp and
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Speaker 1: she also felt very nauseous and a little dizzy. And
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Speaker 1: even though by this point it's been thirty years since
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Speaker 1: her aunt's died of this illness, she knew immediately on
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Speaker 1: that morning that the curse had finally arrived and it
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Speaker 1: was now going to kill her. So she forced herself
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Speaker 1: to get out of bed, and then she walked outside
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Speaker 1: to where her husband and her daughter were sitting and
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Speaker 1: having coffee, and she told them what was going on here.
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Speaker 1: And when she told her family that she has this
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Speaker 1: blood curse and there's nothing they can do, her daughter,
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Speaker 1: whose name was Janet, said, wait a minute, mom, go
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Speaker 1: to a doctor. But Severreina argued that there was no
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Speaker 1: point because the Kurandero thirty years ago had told her
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Speaker 1: that nothing would help, and she had watched her aunt's
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Speaker 1: dive from this very thing, like there was nothing she
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Speaker 1: could do. She was doomed. But Janet begged her mother
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Speaker 1: to just forget what you were told thirty years ago,
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Speaker 1: forget all that and just go see a doctor, even
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Speaker 1: if they can't do anything. Just gouly Severena relented and said, fine,
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Speaker 1: I'll go to the doctor, even though it's not going
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Speaker 1: to help. So later that day they made the long
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Speaker 1: journey into the nearest city to go see a doctor.
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Speaker 1: At the doctor's office, a doctor took blood samples and
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Speaker 1: ran tests on Severina and listened carefully as she explained
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Speaker 1: the family blood curse. And as Severina and her family
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Speaker 1: waited for the test results to come back, she braced
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Speaker 1: herself because she knew that the doctor would say that, sorry, yep,
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Speaker 1: the test show there's nothing we can do here. And
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Speaker 1: finally the doctor did come back into the room and
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Speaker 1: he told Severina that she was right. The Kuran Daro
24:34
Speaker 1: had been right. This was blood related. There was something
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Speaker 1: in her blood. And immediately Severina just kind of collapsed
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Speaker 1: in her chair because she knew what came next was
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Speaker 1: an agonizing death, the same way her aunts had died.
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Speaker 1: But then the doctor told her what this blood curse
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Speaker 1: actually was, And at first Severina was just really confused
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Speaker 1: by what the doctor was saying. But then as she's
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Speaker 1: hearing this new information, she remembered all the times when
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Speaker 1: when she was younger, when she would reflexively itch her
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Speaker 1: skin when she thought about the blood curse, like she
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Speaker 1: would itch to scratch it out of her body. It
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Speaker 1: was almost like this reflexive thing that she was doing,
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Speaker 1: not realizing that every time she scratched her arms, she
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Speaker 1: was quite literally giving herself the curse. It would turn
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Speaker 1: out the so called blood curse that Severina's aunts had
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Speaker 1: was actually caused by a parasite, and it was true
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Speaker 1: Severina also had this blood curse. She too had a
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Speaker 1: parasite in her body that would do the same thing.
25:31
Speaker 1: But Severina's parasite it went dormant inside of her body
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Speaker 1: for more than thirty years, so no symptoms, nothing for
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Speaker 1: thirty years, just living inside of her skin. In many
25:41
Speaker 1: parts of South America, there was a bug called the vinchuca,
25:45
Speaker 1: which is essentially a type of bedbug. The bug itself
25:48
Speaker 1: is harmless, but there's a parasite that lives in the
25:51
Speaker 1: bug's feces. When the bug bites its victims, and its
25:55
Speaker 1: victims scratch at the bites, they break the surface of
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Speaker 1: their skin and in fact with this parasite. Then the
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Speaker 1: parasite can lay dormant in the person's blood, sometimes for decades. Now.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people don't even realize they have this
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Speaker 1: because they never have symptoms ever. But if symptoms do
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Speaker 1: appear without any real treatment, the person suffers organ damage
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Speaker 1: or even dies. Luckily, in Severina's case, when her parasite
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Speaker 1: became active again thirty years later, she was able to
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Speaker 1: receive treatment for the parasite and would make a full recovery.
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