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Toxic Exposure

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Dec 30, 2002

In December of 1979, a young girl passes out on a bus in Wisconsin. She is taken to the hospital complaining of a sore throat, fever and aching muscles. Doctors believe she has the flu, until her blood pressure drops and her kidneys begin to fail.

Full Episodes

Season 1, 13 episodes

Tracking A Killer,

After a nurse treats five cases of pneumonia in a single night outside of Roanoke, Virginia, she notifies local health officials.

50m Dec 30, 2002

Health officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico face an outbreak of a rare and fatal blood disorder. Patients suffer sharp muscular pain, fatigue, fever and rashes. Twenty-one people die from the illness.

50m Dec 30, 2002

In late August of 1999, an infectious disease specialist in Queens, New York reports that she has two elderly patients with neurological disorders. More cases crop up in the following days, several patients die.

49m Dec 30, 2002

Invisible Threat,

In August of 1998, Marilyn Miller is awakened by her son’s frightened cries. She finds him suffering from a dangerously high fever and severe abdominal pains. As doctors work to stabilize him, she begins to feel the sickening symptoms herself.

49m Dec 30, 2002

Summer Exposure,

On the tiny resort island of Martha’s Vineyard, landscaper, Patrick Ryer, suffers from chills and high fever. Patrick has contracted Tularemia, a rare bacterial disease.

49m Dec 30, 2002

Unlikely Source,

A hospital in Walkerton, Ontario is flooded with patients with the same alarming symptoms. All suffer from fever, nausea and gastrointestinal problems.

49m Dec 30, 2002

In the summer of 2001, Debby Stoner’s family begins to exhibit severe flu-like symptoms. Upon visiting the family, who live in a small village on Maui, doctors discover that others are also suffering from strange symptoms.

49m Dec 30, 2002

For months, members of the McGuire family suffer from chronic illnesses, bronchitis, pneumonia and abdominal pains, fever and chills. When Amy McGuire’s respiratory ailments don’t respond to any treatment, her parents become alarmed.

49m Dec 30, 2002

During December of 1999, public health authorities in Alberta, Canada are notified of two cases of a rare form of bacterial meningitis. A third reported case claims the life of a seventeen-year-old.

49m Dec 30, 2002

Toxic Exposure,

In December of 1979, a young girl passes out on a bus in Wisconsin. She is taken to the hospital complaining of a sore throat, fever and aching muscles. Doctors believe she has the flu, until her blood pressure drops and her kidneys begin to fail.

49m Dec 30, 2002

Canadian doctors are alarmed when a middle-aged woman dies of cryptococcal meningitis in 1999. Over the next few years, doctors see dozens of similar infections with pneumonia-like symptoms.

49m Dec 30, 2002

Dangerous Catch,

In 1993, aquatic researcher Joanne Burkholder suffers an array of troubling symptoms while working in her North Carolina State University lab.

49m Dec 30, 2002

When an unpredictable germ terrifies Texas in 1998, the CDC and health officials alert all neighboring states and territories to be on the lookout for streptococcus outbreak, the same bacteria that causes strep throat.

49m Dec 30, 2002