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Medical Investigation: Progeny
The team is split up to investigate two different cases. Connor, McCabe, and Powell are summoned to a Caribbean resort to investigate adults with a strange respiratory problem. Meanwhile, Durant and Rossi stays in Miami to investigate an illness of an old man.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x5 Production Number: 40547005 Airdate: Friday October 01st, 2004 Alternate Airdates:
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Recap
Dr. Natalie Durant convinces Dr. Connor to take a case in which children are mysteriously a deadly muscle inflammation. The crew heads to Massachusetts and the immediate blame was putted on a factory that is possibly dumping the toxins that is infecting the children. It raises more suspicions on the factory when Dr. Miles McCabe finds a green colored toxin in one of the factory's site and the factory's owner is refusing to cooperate. Back in the lab, Dr. Durant finds a stunning commonality between all the infected children, they are all born through In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). What are the odds of that? It is also concluded that the factory's toxin is not the cause of the children's infection, but the cause of the male worker's sperm count. Since the children's fathers is employed or was once employed at the factory, they became infected and therefore have trouble reproducing. ..Read the full recap
Episode Notes
The episode was supposed to be aired on September 24, 2004. However about a week and a half before, a role needed to be recasted and reshoot.
A week and a half before this episode was aired, an episode from NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit have a similar plot with the same scenario of stolen embryos.
Ratings: 9.8 million viewers overall
Episode References
Dr. Durant realizes all the children are born through In-Viro Fertilization.
In-Vitro Fertilization: Using modern technology, doctors today can remove an egg from a woman if she has a damaged fallopian tube. Or, if a male has any problem with his sperms, a sperm may be removed to place it in a removed egg to be fertilize in a lab. The resulting embryo would then be placed in the mother's uterus. Bottom line, a chance for a couple to have a baby if one or both parents have some fertilization problems.
In-Vitro Fertilization: Using modern technology, doctors today can remove an egg from a woman if she has a damaged fallopian tube. Or, if a male has any problem with his sperms, a sperm may be removed to place it in a removed egg to be fertilize in a lab. The resulting embryo would then be placed in the mother's uterus. Bottom line, a chance for a couple to have a baby if one or both parents have some fertilization problems.
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