Her husband died from ALS. She wanted answers | the fifth estate

One woman's fight to understand why her husband died of ALS and the public health investigation into a possible cluster of Lou Gehrig's disease. She embarks on her own quest to find the causes of a disease that science still struggles to understand.

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