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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three medical mysteries, and
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Speaker 1: all of these stories end with diagnoses that are so
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's stories. One morning in twenty seventeen,
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Speaker 1: a twenty five year old man named Watanabe Takuya stumbled
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Speaker 1: into the Kiyo University Hospital in Tokyo, Japan. Takuya felt
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Speaker 1: sweaty and feverish, and his head was pounding, and he
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Speaker 1: also had one hand kind of cupped over his right
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Speaker 1: ear because his ear was literally leaking fluid. But Takuya
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Speaker 1: was not scared by these symptoms. Instead, he actually felt
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Speaker 1: sort of annoyed. Because this was actually not the first time.
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Speaker 2: These symptoms had happened to him.
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Speaker 1: So Takuya had this long history of something known as
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Speaker 1: cholestio tuma, which is basically a recurring cyst that grows
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Speaker 1: deep inside the ear canal.
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Speaker 2: When he was a teenager, he'd had.
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Speaker 1: Multiple surgeries to have the cyst removed and keep it
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Speaker 1: from coming back, and for almost a decade now it
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Speaker 1: seemed like the surgeries had worked because the cyst had
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Speaker 1: stayed gone. But about two weeks earlier, he'd begun having
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Speaker 1: this constant drainage coming out of his ear, which was a.
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Speaker 2: Sign that the cyst was back. Now.
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Speaker 1: When this began happening, initially he had sort of put
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Speaker 1: off going back to the hospital, but now he was
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Speaker 1: pretty sure the cyst had caused him to develop an
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Speaker 1: ear infection, which would now explain his fever and his headache,
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Speaker 1: and so here he was. So Takuya made his way
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Speaker 1: to the checking desk at the hospital with one hand
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Speaker 1: still keeping the liquid in his ear, and as he's
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Speaker 1: standing there, he explained his symptoms and his medical history
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Speaker 1: to the receptionist, who nodded, you know, took down all
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Speaker 1: of his information and quickly admitted him to the emergency room.
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Speaker 1: About half an hour later, Takuya was laying in his
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Speaker 1: emergency room bed with his eyes closed because the light
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Speaker 1: in the room was so intense it was making his
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Speaker 1: headache worse. But even with his eyes closed, he knew
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Speaker 1: there was a hospital doctor standing right beside his bed,
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Speaker 1: and he listened as the doctor went over the results
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Speaker 1: of some of the tests they had run. The doctor
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Speaker 1: said that based on Takuya's medical history and the fluid
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Speaker 1: clearly leaking out of his ear, they were pretty sure
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Speaker 1: that he was right and that his cyst had returned
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Speaker 1: and led to what was now a severe ear infection.
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Speaker 1: He said that very likely Takuya would have to have
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Speaker 1: another surgery to get rid of the cyst again, but
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Speaker 1: the doctor didn't want to operate just yet, because he
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Speaker 1: said they had an even bigger problem to deal with first.
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Speaker 1: Based on the preliminary blood tests, the doctor said, it
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Speaker 1: looked like Takuya's ear infection had gotten so bad that
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Speaker 1: the infection had actually spread to the tissue surrounding his brain,
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Speaker 1: and this was obviously extremely dangerous, primarily because it could
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Speaker 1: lead to permanent brain damage and even death. And when
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Speaker 1: Takuya heard this, I mean, on one hand, he was
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Speaker 1: obviously shocked. I mean, this was more than he expected,
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Speaker 1: of course, but more than that, he just felt mad
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Speaker 1: at himself because he knew that if he hadn't waited
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Speaker 1: so long to come to the hospital, this infection likely
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten this bad. I mean, he's known about
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Speaker 1: this for two weeks. He just kind of didn't want
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Speaker 1: to deal with it, and now it was obviously much worse.
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Speaker 1: But regardless, you know, it was too late now. So Takuyah,
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Speaker 1: despite the light, opened up his eyes and he asked
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Speaker 1: the doctor, you know, what could they do?
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Speaker 2: And the doctor said they were going to have to
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Speaker 2: admit him to the.
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Speaker 1: Hospital, not just the emergency room, and start him on
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Speaker 1: a very powerful.
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Speaker 2: Dose of antibiotics.
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Speaker 1: Two weeks later, Takuya was still in the hospital, and
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Speaker 1: at this point he was actually lying on his back
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Speaker 1: and he was being basically rolled inside of a CT machine,
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Speaker 1: which basically is like this big white ring that goes
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Speaker 1: over your head and it scans the inside of your head.
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Speaker 1: So by this point, the antibiotics he'd been prescribed had
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Speaker 1: worked and Takuya's infection had been cured. But despite that,
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Speaker 1: his ear was still leaking fluid on and off, not constantly,
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Speaker 1: but it was definitely still happening. So because of that,
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Speaker 1: hospital doctors had ordered this CT scan specifically so they
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Speaker 1: could look inside of Takuya's head and basically map out
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Speaker 1: exactly how they were going to operate on his ear.
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Speaker 2: Takuya laid perfectly.
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Speaker 1: Still for about five minutes while the CT scan machine
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Speaker 1: took pictures of the inside of his head, and then
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Speaker 1: when it was done, a nurse pulled him out and
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Speaker 1: then led him back to his hospital room, and then
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Speaker 1: a little while later a hospital doctor came into the
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Speaker 1: room holding some papers, and the doctor told Takuya that,
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Speaker 1: you know, based on the CT scan he had just done,
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Speaker 1: he actually didn't need another surgery on his ear. And
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Speaker 1: immediately Takuya felt so happy and so relieved because he thought,
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Speaker 1: you know, another surgery was practically inevitable. But that happy
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Speaker 1: feeling only lasted for about a second because then the
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Speaker 1: doctor who you know, just delivered this news sort of
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Speaker 1: shifted and had this really troubled look come over his face,
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Speaker 1: and they told Takuya that, well, the reason you don't
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Speaker 1: need another surgery is because there is no cyst in.
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Speaker 2: Your ear at all.
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Speaker 1: The real problem that was causing all of your symptoms
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Speaker 1: was much much worse than from his stack of papers.
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Speaker 1: The doctor handed to Kuya an image from the CT scan,
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Speaker 1: and when Takuya looked at it, he could.
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Speaker 2: Not believe what he saw.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out Takuya had an extremely rare condition
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Speaker 1: called gorum stout disease, which is more commonly known as
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Speaker 1: vanishing bone disease. It happens when a person's body just
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Speaker 1: randomly starts breaking down and consuming their own bones.
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Speaker 2: And in Takuya's case.
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Speaker 1: His skull was now literally disappearing, almost like a melting
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Speaker 1: ice cube, and that fluid that was leaking out of
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Speaker 1: his ear was brain fluid that was now basically flowing
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Speaker 1: through the holes in his skull. Now, unfortunately, at the
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Speaker 1: time of the story and still today, there is no
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Speaker 1: known cure for Gorum's stout disease. The best doctors can
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Speaker 1: do is basically plug up the holes where they begin
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Speaker 1: to disintegrate, and that's exactly what they did for Takuya.
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Speaker 2: They used this special.
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Speaker 1: Glue and literally kind of plugged up the holes in
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Speaker 1: his skull. But amazingly, it sort of worked because Takuya's
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Speaker 1: doctors monitored him for bone loss and fluid leakage after
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Speaker 1: they did this, and as of his most recent checkup
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Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen. At least in terms of what's been
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Speaker 1: publicly released, he appeared to be.
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Speaker 2: Doing quite well.
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Speaker 1: afternoon in late January of twenty eighteen, a father named
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Speaker 1: Dan Livittis stood inside the bathroom that his three kids
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Speaker 1: shared inside of his house in Madison, Wisconsin. Dan grabbed
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Speaker 1: his kid's toothbrushes and threw them right in the garbage.
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Speaker 1: Then he sprayed the counters, the sink, the mirror, basically
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Speaker 1: every surface he could see with disinfectant and began wiping
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Speaker 1: everything down. So Dan was doing this because he, his wife,
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Speaker 1: and their three kids all had strep throat, and according
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Speaker 1: to their doctor, the best way to get rid of
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Speaker 1: it was basically to have everybody take antibiotics and to
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Speaker 1: deep clean the house to get rid of all the
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Speaker 1: bacteria that had caused the infection. However, as Dan followed
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Speaker 1: protocol and scrubbed down the bathroom counters, he felt sort
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Speaker 1: of frustrated because this was not actually the first time
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Speaker 1: that his whole family had come down with strap over
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Speaker 1: just the last four months, his whole family had gotten
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Speaker 1: STRAP six times, and no matter how many antibiotics they
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Speaker 1: took or how many times they deep cleaned the house
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Speaker 1: and all the bathrooms, it's like they always got sick again.
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Speaker 1: And this was really baffling to Dan because he was
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Speaker 1: actually a biologist, and so he knew a lot about bacteria,
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Speaker 1: and he'd already explored practically every option for where this
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Speaker 1: repeated strap infection could be coming from. Nobody else at
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Speaker 1: his or his wife's work was getting sick, and neither
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Speaker 1: was anybody at his kid's school or daycare, so he
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Speaker 1: knew it couldn't be coming from any of those places.
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Speaker 1: But this didn't make any sense either, because each time
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Speaker 1: they got strap, all six times, Dan and his wife,
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Speaker 1: you know, systematically disinfected like the entire house, I mean,
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Speaker 1: really overboard, cleaning every surface. So if there was bacteria
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Speaker 1: somewhere in the house, it had to have been cleaned
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Speaker 1: up by now. But it was like somehow the bacteria
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Speaker 1: was surviving the disinfecting. He just didn't know where it
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Speaker 1: could be. But regardless, Dan still dutifully went about, you know,
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Speaker 1: disinfecting the bathroom for the sixth time, here. Then when
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Speaker 1: he was done, he went into the kitchen, where he
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Speaker 1: had his whole family's antibiotic prescriptions stacked up on the counter.
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Speaker 1: Dan took his own and then also grabbed doses for
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Speaker 1: everybody else. Dan brought antibiotics to his two daughters, who
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Speaker 1: were six and three years old, and who were also
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Speaker 1: both lying in their beds looking completely miserable. Then he
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Speaker 1: went into his and his wife's room, where he found
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Speaker 1: his wife sitting up in bed cuddling with their very
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Speaker 1: sick one year old son. Dan handed his wife the
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Speaker 1: antibiotics and then looked down at his son. He looked
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Speaker 1: so small and vulnerable, and it just killed Dan to
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Speaker 1: the and how many times this poor kid had been sick,
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Speaker 1: and how powerless he was to help him. Dan didn't
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Speaker 1: know what else to do here. He and his wife
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Speaker 1: were following doctor's orders here, but this is again the
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Speaker 1: sixth time, and clearly nothing's changing, so the advice is
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Speaker 1: not really helping. It just sort of felt like they
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Speaker 1: were trapped and couldn't get out of this awful situation.
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Speaker 1: But then, as Dan was standing there feeling sort of defeated.
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Speaker 2: He thought of something.
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Speaker 1: His mother was a retired pediatrician and she might have
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Speaker 1: different advice for how to handle this. So he sat
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Speaker 1: down in bed, took out his phone, and he called
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Speaker 1: his mom to ask for help. And Dan's mom actually
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Speaker 1: did have a theory about where this strep bacteria was
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Speaker 1: coming from and how to get rid of it. But
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Speaker 1: because Dan was a biologist and really understood how bacteria functioned,
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Speaker 1: he knew her theory was sort of out there. Like
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Speaker 1: most scientists and medical professionals for that matter, would say
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Speaker 1: that his mom's theory was basically not possible. But at
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Speaker 1: this point, Dan and his family were desperate enough that
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Speaker 1: they were all ready to try something new. So Dan
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Speaker 1: decided he would try out his mother's theory, and so
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Speaker 1: he began looking for an expert to help him do that.
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Speaker 1: But all the experts Dan got in touch with when
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Speaker 1: they heard about what this theory really entailed, they turned
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Speaker 1: it down, like nobody was prepared to do this, And
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Speaker 1: so for Dan, it felt like he was right on
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Speaker 1: the cusp of maybe finding the answer here and maybe
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Speaker 1: curing his family of this horrible problem, but no medical
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Speaker 1: professionals would even entertain it as a possibility. About a
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Speaker 1: month later, in early March, Dan was inside of a
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Speaker 1: hospital room, sitting next to his wife, and they were
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Speaker 1: both staring down at their three year old daughter. She
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Speaker 1: was lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to an
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Speaker 1: IV and an oxygen mask because she'd gotten strep throat
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Speaker 1: for a seventh time, and this time she'd gotten so
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Speaker 1: sick she'd also developed pneumonia, and so realistically, at this point,
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Speaker 1: Dan and his wife weren't even sure if she was
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Speaker 1: going to survive. And for Dan, I mean, he was
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Speaker 1: on the verge of a complete breakdown here. He was
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Speaker 1: convinced that the only way to protect his kids was
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Speaker 1: to find somebody who would test.
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Speaker 2: His mother's theory.
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Speaker 1: But Dan and his wife had already been turned down
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Speaker 1: by basically every expert in the entire state, and so
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Speaker 1: Dan really didn't know who to turn to at this point.
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Speaker 1: But as they sat in the hospital room watching their
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Speaker 1: toddler fight for her life, Dan's wife suddenly turned to
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Speaker 1: him and said, what if instead of asking medical professionals
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Speaker 1: for help, what if we try asking medical students. Maybe
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Speaker 1: a student would be more willing to test out this theory.
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Speaker 1: You know, even if it did seem kind of crazy,
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Speaker 1: Dan agreed. At this point, it was definitely worth a try,
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Speaker 1: so they reached out to the University of Wisconsin and
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Speaker 1: this final hail Mary actually worked. On April fourth, twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 1: so about six months after the first step outbreak in
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Speaker 1: their house, Dan and his wife took one very specific
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Speaker 1: thing from their home and brought it to the University
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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. The student they'd contacted then analyzed this thing
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Speaker 1: and was determined after their analysis that Dan and his
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Speaker 1: family's crazy theory was correct. It would turn out Dan,
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Speaker 1: his wife, and their three kids were not the only
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Speaker 1: ones in their home suffering from strep throat. There was
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Speaker 1: actually a sixth victim, their pet cat. Now, most veterinarians
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Speaker 1: didn't believe that cats could even catch strap, let alone
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Speaker 1: transmit it to humans, so they all refused to test
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Speaker 1: the family's cat.
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Speaker 2: That's why they kept saying no.
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Speaker 1: It was not until Dan contacted the University of Wisconsin
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Speaker 1: veterinary school that a student finally agreed to do it,
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Speaker 1: and lo and behold, the test came back positive for
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Speaker 1: the exact same strain that the family kept on catching
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Speaker 1: their cat kept giving them strap. Dan's three year old
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Speaker 1: daughter would make a full recovery from her pneumonia, and
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Speaker 1: after another round of antibiotics, including antibiotics for the cat,
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Speaker 1: and one more deep clean of the house. The family
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Speaker 1: strep throat finally went away for good. On September thirtieth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four, a forty four year old woman named
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Lawrence stood with her husband outside the door to
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Speaker 1: her parents' apartment in a little city in southwestern Germany.
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Speaker 1: Charlotte took a deep, shaky breath and then unlocked the
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Speaker 1: door and stepped slowly into her parents' home. So Charlotte
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Speaker 1: was here because both of her parents had suddenly died
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Speaker 1: just a few days ago. They'd only been seventy and
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Speaker 1: seventy six years old, and they had both been in
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Speaker 1: good health. But her father had suffered a massive heart
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Speaker 1: attack right in their kitchen, and when her mother found him,
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Speaker 1: she also had a heart attack, apparently out of shock.
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Speaker 1: Now Charlotte's mother had managed to call a doctor, but
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Speaker 1: by the time the doctor arrived, both Charlotte's dad and
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Speaker 1: mom were deceased. Now, Charlotte and her husband had flown
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Speaker 1: into Germany that morning from Wisconsin, where they lived, and
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Speaker 1: up until this point, Charlotte really had been holding her
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Speaker 1: emotions together. But now standing in her parents' living room
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Speaker 1: and looking around at all their belongings, it was like
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Speaker 1: all of the grief just poured out of her and
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Speaker 1: she just broke.
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Speaker 2: Down and sobbed.
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Speaker 1: So her husband, not really knowing what else to do,
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Speaker 1: just turned on the TV and sort of guided Charlotte
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Speaker 1: over to the couch and told her to sit down
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Speaker 1: and rest for a bit before they had dinner. They
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Speaker 1: actually had plans that evening with the next door neighbor.
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Speaker 1: She was this elderly woman named Caroline, and Caroline had
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Speaker 1: offered to come over and cook dinner for them, and
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Speaker 1: also Charlotte's uncle, Dieter, planned to come over as well
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Speaker 1: after dinner, since he lived nearby. About thirty minutes later,
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Speaker 1: Charlotte is still sitting on the couch, just kind of
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Speaker 1: relaxing and watching TV. Caroline, the neighbor, showed up, and
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Speaker 1: she showed up with two big bags of groceries, and
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Speaker 1: she went right inside the house and right into the
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Speaker 1: kitchen and began cooking, and pretty soon the entire apartment
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Speaker 1: smelled like comfort food, which made Charlotte feel admittedly a
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Speaker 1: lot better. Eventually, Caroline called out that dinner was almost ready,
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Speaker 1: so at that point Charlotte got up, she went into
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Speaker 1: the kitchen and sat down at the table next to
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Speaker 1: her husband, and then after the food was served, they
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Speaker 1: all ate dinner together while they waited for her uncle
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Speaker 1: Dieter to arrive. Not long after, Uncle Dieter arrived and
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Speaker 1: knocked on the front door of the apartment, but after
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Speaker 1: a full minute, nobody came to the door.
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Speaker 2: So he knocked again, but there was still no answer.
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Speaker 1: Dieter could hear the TV on in the living room,
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Speaker 1: but he couldn't hear any voices inside or the sound
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Speaker 1: of anybody moving around inside the apartment, and so after
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Speaker 1: a couple of minutes, he just decided he would let
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Speaker 1: himself in. As Dieter walked through the living room, he
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Speaker 1: began calling out for Charlotte, her husband, and for Caroline,
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Speaker 1: but still nobody called back, and there was no sound
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Speaker 1: of anybody moving inside the apartment. It was just totally still,
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Speaker 1: and so Dieter he couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive,
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Speaker 1: like this is weird, Like where is everybody?
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Speaker 2: What's going on? They were expecting me.
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Speaker 1: He walked out of the living room and into the kitchen,
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Speaker 1: and there he saw Charlotte, her husband, and Caroline, all
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Speaker 1: sitting at the table eating their food, but something was wrong.
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Speaker 1: All three of them were just sitting at the table
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Speaker 1: and their plates were half eaten right in front of.
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Speaker 2: Them, but nobody was moving.
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Speaker 1: It was like they were all just kind of stationary,
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Speaker 1: just kind of staring straight ahead. And so Dieter he
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Speaker 1: sort of he bent down and he was like, Charlotte,
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Speaker 1: what's going on?
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Speaker 2: What are you guys doing?
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Speaker 1: But when he got a good look at Charlotte's face
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Speaker 1: and Caroline's face and Charlotte's husband's face, his stomach just
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Speaker 1: dropped and he backed away, totally horrified. What Dieter saw
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Speaker 1: was so terrifying, so eerie, so awful. It actually made
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Speaker 1: international news, and that apartment would even get a nickname,
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Speaker 1: the Deathhouse. Charlotte's parents did not just have spontaneous heart
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Speaker 1: attacks on the same day and die.
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Speaker 2: That's not what happened.
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Speaker 1: It would turn out that toxic sewer gas had been
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Speaker 1: leaking into the apartment through a broken pipe in the
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Speaker 1: kitchen sink. That gas poisoned both of Charlotte's parents and
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Speaker 1: caused their hearts to stop basically at the same time. Now,
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Speaker 1: nobody thought to check for sewer gas poison. So Charlotte
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Speaker 1: and her husband came to stay at her parents' apartment
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Speaker 1: without any idea that the apartment was still full of
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Speaker 1: this toxic gas. And so when Dieter finally came over
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Speaker 1: for dinner, he found Charlotte, her husband, and Caroline all
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Speaker 1: sitting around the kitchen table sort of frozen there because
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Speaker 1: they were dead. Dieter, fortunately, after seeing this, immediately left
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