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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-24/motor-neurone-disease-research-funding-notifiable-disease/102731736 “Her family is one of many in #Griffith and other #Riverina towns tormented by the incurable disease, where some researchers estimate the rate of #MND to be five to seven times the national average.
After years of lobbying by the local community and the Member for Murray, Helen Dalton, the state government set aside $2 million in April to investigate a potential #cluster.”
“Up to 10 per cent of MND cases can be attributed to genetics, but it is the other 90 per cent that continues to vex academics.
Lifestyle factors like smoking and working with certain chemicals has been shown to increase the likelihood of #MND, and research on links to #AlgalBlooms date back to the late 1980s.
one theory was that a toxin produced by blue-green algae called beta-N-methylamino-L-alanine (#BMAA) might be one environmental risk factor”