About 5,000 people in the United States are diagnosed every year. That is about two percent of 100,000 people, it is estimated that as many as 30,000 Americans have the disease at any time. After diagnosed, about five percent will live about twenty years, ten percent will live ten years, twenty percent will live five years, and sixty percent will live no more then two to five years. There are some cases in which the disease has stopped progressing, and a then there are also a small number of people whom the symptom have reversed. ALS does not care who you are, what you look like, or what you do. ALS occurs throughout the world and can strike