Facts about MS by Katherine Lazaris

  • 200 people contract MS a week.
  • MS has different effects on everyone.
  • MS attacks the nervous system.
  • MS can paralize you or make you blind.
  • It is characterized by musculer weakness, tremor.
  • You cannot predict how serious the disease will be in someone early on.
  • You cannot inherit the disease.
  • Women constitute about 70% of the patients with MS.
  • MS usually begins affecting people from the ages of 20-40
  • Depression is a frequent reaction to the disease.