Lou Gehrig's Disease

It is a disease that breaks down tissues in the nervous system (a neurodegenerative disease) of unknown cause that affects the nerves responsible for movement. It is also known as motor neuron disease and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), after the baseball player whose career it ended.

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