An ‘Impossible’ Disease Outbreak in the Alps
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In one tiny town, more than a dozen people were diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease ALS. Why?

From the responses, the team learned that the ALS patients were not the only mushroom foragers in town, but they shared an affinity for a particular species that local interviewees without ALS said they never touched: the false morel.