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Safe to Drink, Episode 1: You don’t know about this? Jan 29, 2026

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A New Hampshire town finds out its water has been contaminated by a chemical. The most basic question — whether the water is safe to drink — doesn’t have a clear answer. Nobody seems to know much about this so-called forever chemical, which is weird… because all of this has all happened before.

From the Document team at New Hampshire Public Radio, Safe to Drink is a four-part series about a water contamination story that keeps repeating in town after town — and about the people who fought for answers through a maze of chemistry, regulations, and illnesses.

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Lyme AMA (Ask Me Anything) May 21, 2020

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Is it Lyme disease, or Lyme's disease? Can humans take the canine Lyme vaccine? Does everybody infected with Lyme also get co-infections? These are some of the listener questions we attempt to answer in this Bonus episode. It's the Lyme AMA!

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Patient Otzi May 14, 2020

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The earliest known case of Lyme disease? Or the problem with correcting the
record?

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Horses & Zebras May 07, 2020

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The origin of ulcers. The rise and fall of a medical recommendation.
Certainty and science.

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The Reservoir Oct 03, 2019

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Society inadvertently engineers an epidemic. Scientists debate whether or not to engineer a solution.

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The Non-A Non-B Sep 26, 2019

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An ambiguous case with no easy answers. Another growing epidemic, and an ethics question that might help explain Lymeworld.

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LYMErix Sep 19, 2019

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In the late 90s you could get vaccinated against Lyme. Now you can't. What gives?

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The Laser Sep 12, 2019

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When it feels like doctors have closed the door to establishment medicine, another set of doors open. These doors lead to dubious providers, and untested treatments.

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The Bell Curve Sep 05, 2019

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Lyme disease has been called the Great Imitator. And the Lyme disease tests have a fraught history.

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The Vector Aug 29, 2019

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A perfect carrier of disease. A race underneath your skin. The part we know, before we get to the parts we don't.

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