This Radiolab episode explores the concept of 'Patient Zero' across three powerful stories: Typhoid Mary, the myth of Patient Zero in the AIDS epidemic, and the contested origin of the high five. It reveals how cultural narratives often simplify complex origins into singular figures, obsc
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