The first in a series on Alzheimer’s disease in places beyond the borders of the United States.

There’s a village in Columbia that may give scientists the answers they’ve been looking for in their quest to prevent Alzheimer’s disease before it begins to destroy the brain.

That’s the good news.

The bad news is that this information is becoming available because many of the residents of the small town of Yarumal have genes that give them early-onset Alzheimer’s, and it’s been devastating the region for years.

You can read more about this fascinating situation and the study in this Yahoo News article.