December 30, 2013
LONDON — It’s a disease that strikes down adults at their prime — and it’s found Ground Zero in Canada.
Multiple sclerosis afflicts Canadians at a rate that far outpaces anyplace else in the world, a new survey has found.
“It’s really shocking … It is almost like a Canadian disease,” said Karen Lee, of the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada.
Nearly 100,000 Canadians have the disease, a rate that’s 28% higher than the country with the second-highest mark, Denmark, and nine times higher than the global average, according to the survey by the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation.
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