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As a teenager, EenVandaag Radio reporter Laura Kors peeled tulip bulbs in West Friesland summer after summer. That experience from then has now led to a podcast about Parkinson’s.
In the podcast, which can be listened to from November 29 via popular podcast apps and the website nporadio1.nl/podcasts, Kors asks herself whether she can get Parkinson’s disease. The immediate reason for this is her radio report in which she meets Parkinson’s patient Ger Geurts. He probably owes his illness to exposure to agricultural poisons. That set off alarm bells at Kors.
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Laura Kors.© Archive photo
Can she now also get Parkinson’s disease, she wonders. And what about her family, friends and fellow villagers? In the new AVROTROS and NPO Radio 1 podcast ‘Do I get Parkinson’s?’ Kors tries to answer this question, among other things. She examines what is known about the link between Parkinson’s and pesticides.
Farmers
For the five-part podcast series, Kors travels to this region where she talks to people affected by the disease. She also speaks to farmers who regularly get a middle finger from passers-by when they are on their sprayers.
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