Rare Disease Day
Rare Disease Day is celebrated on which day each year.
What is the last day in February? (Feb 28th/29th)
NORD headquarters is located in Norwell, a city in this US State.
What is Massachusetts?
CMT often causes progressive weakness in these two body regions first.
What are the feet and lower legs?
Approximately this percentage of Rare Diseases are genetic in origin.
What is 70-80 percent
This city is the largest in population in Wisconsin.
What is Milwaukee?
The Rare Disease Day campaign was officially launched in the US in this year.
What is 2009?
Although each rare disease affects a small number of individuals, collectively they impact approximately this many Americans, a statistic frequently cited by NORD.
What is 30 million Americans?
This type of CMT primarily affects the myelin sheath, slowing nerve conduction.
What is CMT Type 1?
Research into rare bone disorders informed many forms of treatment for this more common bone condition.
What is Osteoporosis?
This great lake borders Wisconsin to the East.
What is Lake Michigan?
This was the first country outside of Europe to officially participate in Rare Disease Day in 2009.
NORD was founded in 1983 in response to the need for treatments for rare diseases and helped support passage of this landmark legislation.
What is the Orphan Drug Act?
This nonprofit organization funds research and supports individuals living with CMT.
What is the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association?
This national online network was launched in 2014 to help solve complex rare disease cases using phenotyping and genomic analysis.
What is the undiagnosed Diseases Network?
Wisconsin became a state in this year.
What is 1848
Rare Disease Day is coordinated globally by this umbrella organization representing national rare disease alliances.
What is Rare Diseases International?
NORD was founded by Abby Meyers in this year.
What is 1983
CMT is most commonly inherited in this pattern, meaning only one parent needs to pass on the gene mutation.
What is autosomal dominant inheritance?
Despite large progress in rare-disease related research, this percentage of rare diseases still have no FDA approved treatment.
What is about 90%?
This Wisconsin city is where Culver’s opened its very first restaurant in 1984.
What is Sauk City?
This European rare disease alliance originally launched Rare Disease Day in 2008.
What is EURORDIS?
This large U.S. conference, hosted by NORD, brings together patients, researchers, clinicians, and industry leaders.
What is NORD Rare Disease & Orphan Products Breakthrough Summit?
CMT is named after these three physicians who first described the condition in 1886. (Name one)
Who are Who are Jean-Martin Charcot, Pierre Marie, and Howard Henry Tooth?
Many rare diseases are now diagnosed using this genetic test with the abreviation WES.
What is Whole Exome sequencing?
This Green Bay Packers coach won the first two Super Bowls, which are now named after him.
Who is Vince Lombardi?