Outreach from Mystery Diagnosis continues

It’s been several years now since a film crew from Discovery Health visited Karen Tillman and her family and filmed her HPS story for Mystery Diagnosis. Yet, years later, the episode is still doing outreach and touching people who had no idea they were affected by the syndrome.

It has been aired in markets across the United States on the Discovery Health Channel, and then the OWN Network. It’s been picked up in a variety of overseas markets and dubbed into several languages. And now, it has been a featured video by YouTube! The YouTube video alone has now surpassed 150,000 views and it keeps growing.

So far, the HPS Network office is unaware of a version dubbed into Spanish. If anyone sees the episode air in Spanish, please let the office know where, what time and on what network.

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