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U2 show support with song for World MS Day
Evening Herald,
May 25, 2009
U2 will this week support the first global awareness campaign to spotlight multiple sclerosis (MS).
World MS Day, on Wednesday, will involve more than 160 events in 51 countries. U2 have contributed their song Beautiful Day, which will feature on a global campaign film highlighting different aspects of MS. Meanwhile, eight people will climb six of Ireland's mountains in 72 hours. The aim is to highlight the plight of people with the disease, raise money for patient charities and research funding, forge links between MS organisations, and urge action from politicians. Symptoms MS is an incurable auto-immune disease in which nerves are attacked by the body's own defences. Its symptoms range from mild tingling sensations and loss of balance to paralysis. Up to 60pc of sufferers face long-term disability. Among the planned activities for the campaign is an attempt on Mount Everest by two American women with MS, Lori Schneider and Wendy Booker and "Roll for MS" cycling and motorcycling events are being held in Belgium, Canada, France and Luxembourg. The US National MS Society is rallying more than 850,000 individuals to press politicians to support affordable health care for sufferers. One of the sports celebrities backing the campaign is Argentina and Barcelona FC soccer star Lionel Messi. The striker will play against Manchester United in the Champions' League final in Rome on World MS Day on Wednesday. He said: "Whenever I go out to the field, whenever I kick the ball and whenever I run to catch it, every step and every effort I make will be a tribute to the people who live with a much more difficult challenge against MS." (c) Evening Herald, 2009.
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