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Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig

Paralysis and than death eventually happens.
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             The History of ALS.
             ALS was originally noticed as a disease when the famous all-time baseball player Lou Gehrig was diagnosed with it. Others had been diagnosed with the disease before that but it was not well known throughout America until then. Scientists have been researching ALS for over 125 years and have still not yet come up with a prevention. Plus the only treatment that they have come up with only gives the patient a few extra months.
             Distribution of ALS.
             ALS is a global disease but is very rare. These past year only 5,000 people were diagnosed within America. As rare as ALS is unfortunately it is incurable. ALS is not transmitted in anyway from one person to the other in any other way than what scientists think is through genes. ALS could start in any person at any time. For instance, even though one person's family has never (going all the way back) had ALS does not mean that they cannot be diagnosed with it.
             Prevention.
             There is no possible way yet to prevent ALS. Although in 2000 scientists from California and France found traces of a virus known as echovirus 7 in the spinal nerves of some patients who died of ALS. If a virus cause can be proven, treatments for ALS may one day be possible. .
             Facts.
             Over 5,000 Americans are diagnosed with ALS every year. Symptoms usually start appearing in individuals around the ages of 40-70, though the disease has been found in both younger and older people. People usually die out after 2-5 years after the first symptoms are found. Progression of ALS varies with each person, therefore some people will live longer up to 10 years while others will live only for maybe a year. About 5 percent of the people diagnosed with ALS will live up to or longer than 12 years. In many cases the disease seems to be platue and the patients will be able to live almost normal lives with the assistance of devices for daily living, and later communicating equipment.


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