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Lou Gehrig's Patient Speaks About Funding

Posted: 9:03 PM Mar 3, 2009
Last Updated: 9:21 PM Mar 3, 2009




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People living with ALS, also know as Lou Gehrigs Disease, were at the state capitol today to raise awareness and research dollars.

The ALS Association covered the capitol courtyard with mannequins bearing the names of Floridians who have died from the neuromuscular disease. There is no cure for ALS and people with the disease generally die within five years of diagnoses.
Steve Franks was diagnosed with ALS in 2003.
Franks is on a statewide campaign to education Floridians about the disease.


"This is a horrible disease that we need funding for to find a cure and a cause," Franks says. "Right now, there is neither one.””

There are 12-hundred Floridians living with ALS.




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