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       (Abst.) Global prevalence of MS surpasses 3 million: 2024 update
       of MSIF Atlas of MS
   DIR By: agate
       Date: September 5, 2026, 4:14 pm
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       From PubMed (September 5, 2026)--"Global prevalence of multiple
       sclerosis surpasses 3 million:  2024 update of the Multiple
       Sclerosis International Federation Atlas of MS":
  HTML https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42693747/
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       > Global multiple sclerosis prevalence per 100,000 rose from
       24.8 (95% confidence interval: 24.73-24.80) in 2013 to 38.1 (95%
       confidence interval: 38.09-38.17) in 2024 and most regions
       showed rising prevalence; 3.1 million people now live with
       multiple sclerosis globally. Higher-income countries reported
       higher prevalence than lower-income countries.
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       Interesting about the higher-income countries. These figures do
       not mean that MS is on the rise worldwide. They probably mean
       that people in parts of the world where MS wasn't often
       diagnosed are now being diagnosed, thanks to greater effort and
       more sophisticated diagnostic methods.
       I'm just a patient and no scientific expert on anything but I
       have a suspicion that in many parts of the world, people have
       far worse medical problems taking them down and don't concern
       themselves much about even a flock of MS symptoms and signs.
       There are such people in the US, no doubt--the ones who might
       say in passing, "I have a gimpy leg" or "My eyes are bad" or "My
       memory is like a sieve" and later say something similar about
       some other body part or function. They have all kinds of
       problems with the way their bodies work but they're living with
       them instead of traveling at considerable difficulty and expense
       to seek out medical attention for something they can more or
       less get along with.
       If they reach a point where a leg or both legs won't move, they
       might think about a doctor to see if anything can be done. But
       many people with MS don't get to that point. Since they don't go
       for regular physical checkups because they are costly and it is
       hard to get to medical facilities, their MS hasn't been found.
       Quite possibly the cursory medical care practitioners they
       actually have had access to haven't bothered to look into those
       symptoms and signs, and that may have been because the patients
       came in with far more serious and urgent medical problems that
       had been neglected all too long.
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