ELLIE'S BLOG on Living Well with MS

                                                                                                                                    With 7594 registrations from 125 countries as of May 23 there is a growing worldwide support for MS Day on May 27 .  This event will in the future be held every day on the last Wednesday of the Month of May.

Many thanks go to the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation and all its member MS society's for pulling this event together to unite every person that is affected by MS worldwide.

By doing this event every individual, group or organization in the world can commit to and join together in the fight to improve the quality of life of of every one that is affected by MS.

The of goals of this event are: 1). research to improve treatment of and find a cure for MS.  2). to give help to MS Society's worldwide to support people with MS. 3). to communicate information about MS to all people worldwide. 4). to advocate and  campaign for the rights of all the people with MS worldwide.

Using the latest data from The Atlas of MS www.atlasofms.org   with data from 112 countries MSIF estimates there are about 2 million people world wide with MS. MS is a worldwide disease but more prevalent in northern Europe, North America, Australia and New Zealand, This has led to a speculation that the Vikings who colonized Northern Europe brought the genetic tendency to Scotland. And as England was a big colonizer they spread it around the world. For more information on its epidemiology see PDF in             www.worldmsday.org          

I will share more on this event post in my next post on my blog      

                                                                                       ellie