Researchers have discovered what they believe to be a cluster of patients with ALS or what’s popularly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. They live around Mascoma Lake in Enfield.
Scientists from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center want to find out if ALS could be linked to cyanobacteria, a blue-green algae found in lakes across New Hampshire.
The study has only just begun and those links may be quite difficult to establish. But as New Hampshire Public Radio’s Amy Quinton reports, the publicity surrounding the Mascoma Lake study is having unintended consequences.
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