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Plus, we answer your coronavirus questions in another edition of Ask the Docs, and dig into how monkeypox became a human problem and what we can do to minimize virus spillover from animals to humans.

We talk with David Abel, environmental reporter for the Boston Globe, and Massachusetts State Senator Julian Cyr of the Cape and Islands, co-chair of the PFAS Interagency Task Force.

For the latest on the numbers, and whether we should be alarmed, we turned to the experts in another edition of "Ask the Doctors."

In 1969, the bodies of four women were found buried in the woods in North Truro. They were dismembered and allegedly sexually assaulted. Police would eventually tie their deaths to Provincetown resident Antone "Tony" Costa

A report found that women in state prisons face face a culture of sexual abuse, and retaliation if they report it. We dive behind the headlines with our reporter on this story.

Plus, documenting the spree killings that rocked Cape Cod in the 1960s.

The incident has been referred to the Boston Police Department's Civil Rights Unit for investigation.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis once worked closely with former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe through the Boston Global Forum. Dukakis joins us to talk about the recently assassinated world leader and his connections to Boston.

We discuss a new podcast called "Welcome to Provincetown," which explores LGBTQ+ living in the summer of 2021, with host Mitra Kaboli, and co-creator and Provincetown summer resident Ben Riskin.

We unpack the march, what the city could and should have known, and where we go from here with Tito Jackson, former Boston City Councilor, and Joan Donovan, research director at Harvard's Shorenstein Center.