May is ALS Awareness Month

ALS is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.

ALS usually strikes people between the ages of 40 and 70, and approximately 20,000 people in the U.S. have the disease at any given time.

 

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