The society this month launched the second phase of its public awareness campaign. The campaign material will be featured at more than 100 bus stops throughout the county. It's Not A Magazine For Feminists. MS is a chronic, disabling disease that attacks the brain and central nervous system. The progress, severity and specific symptoms vary and cannot be predicted.
Symptoms range from numbness to paralysis and blindness.
Most people with MS are between 20 and 40 when they are diagnosed and the unpredictable physical and emotional impacts can be lifelong. In Orange County more than 3,000 people have this disease. There is not known cause, cure or prevention for multiple sclerosis.