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Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Versus.

Today on the show, a new segment that we're calling Case Files.

And this is where we take case reports, which are basically stories from academic literature where really weird things have happened to patients that are often so out of the norm that doctors have to write them down for posterity.

So think about the kid who went to the hospital with a case of blue balls.

Classic case report.

But today, we have a case report for you that could perhaps top all case reports.

And to process it all, we've got friend of the show and science journalist, Joel Werner.

Hello, Joel.