Motor Neurone Disease is a fatal condition for which there is no treatment and no cure. In the UK 35 people die from MND every week, and every week 35 people are diagnosed with MND. The average sufferer will live two years, only 10% will survive more than five years. The muscles waste away and the patients die from weakness and paralysis of their breathing muscles. Many doctors regard this condition as the worst disease in medicine.
MND was described by Charcot in 1869. Since then very little has been done.
Motor Neurone Disease is also known in some countries as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or as Lou Gehrig syndrome. In France it is called “La maladie de Charcot”
Figures show that between 1999 and 2004 6000 people died from MND, 4200 from HIV/AIDS and 92 from vCJD. During this time £33million was spent into vCJD, £45 million on HIV/AIDS and £8 million on MND.
'There is no worse disease than MND’
Dame Ciceley Saunders OMDBEFRCP, the founder of the modern hospice movement
Source: http://www.sifoundation.com/What_is_MND.htm
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