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90 to 95% of ALS patients in the United States suffer from Sporadic ALS

Did you know that ALS is also known as Bulbar Motor Neuron disease?

ALS is a fatal neurodegenerative disease characterised by a progressive paralysis leading to death from respiratory failure.

Every day, an average of 15 people are newly diagnosed with ALS — more than 5,600 people per year.

Annually, ALS is responsible for two deaths per 100,000 people.

ALS occurs throughout the world with no racial, ethnic, or socioeconomic boundaries. ALS can strike anyone. Everyone is threatened by it!

As a friend just emailed to me, #allcaregiversmatter .

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FAMILIAL ALS: Once an ALS-causing mutation has occurred in someone, their children can inherit it, and their disease would be "familial."

Did you know Steven Hawkings suffers ALS?

There are two forms of ALS: sporadic and familial.

Speech therapy- patient being helped with technological devices in order to enable him to… instagram.com/p/BHcauBmAwmH/

Motor neurons carry electrical impulses to effector tissues, but the muscles atrophy with the disease.