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Pandemics: Before Patient Zero — What happens before a pandemic has a name — when the pathogen is already moving, the evidence is incomplete, and someone has to decide whether a strange cluster of illness is noise or the beginning of something much bigger? In this episode of No One Is Coming , Lance Still traces pandemics backward from the moment the world notices them to the conditions that make them possible in the first place. From the first ProMED alert about unexplained pneumonia in Wuhan and the mythology of “patient zero,” to Typhoid Mary, the Black Death, smallpox eradication, polio, cholera in the Bay of Bengal, COVID-19, and Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the…