What is the ice bucket challenge? Its an effort to raise awareness of ALS where participants must dump a bucket of ice cold water and then dare someone to do the same. If they cant, the alternative is to donate $100 to the ALS association. How did it start? The ice bucket challenge went viral on social media after a US baseball player and ALS patient, Pete Frates, floated the idea of the challenge in a video on a social networking site. He got the idea from a friend. What is ALS? Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is also referred to as Lou Gehrigs Disease. It is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord. Incidence ALS is thought to be affect 2 people every 1 lakh of the global population Life expectancy About 20% people with ALS live 5 years or more, up to 10% live more than 10 years and about 5% live up to 20 years after diagnosis. youtube/watch?v=baeLtRZbwgY
Posted on: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 08:27:08 +0000
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