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Article: Brave battle to the bitter end; awareness campaign will be launched on Monday for motor neurone disease , whose victims usually die within three years. Mail Medical Correspondent DERE K WEEKES looks at the frightening disease - and the Birmingham research which c ould bring hope to afflic ted families.
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- Birmingham Evening Mail (England)
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- April 23, 1998
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THE greatest mystery of the killer motor neurone disease is the fighting spirit of its victims.
The clock was ticking fast on the last days of life for Birmingham victim Jim Ferguson - but he made the most of every one.
Jim, a Labour councillor for Sparkbrook between 1974 and 1984, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 1985.
His death eight years later inspired his son Finbarr to become involved with the Motor Neurone Disease Association in Birmingham.
The cause and treatment for the disease remain a mystery more than 100 years after ...