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What disease did Stephen Hawking have?

Balo concentric sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis MS
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease CJD
Lou Gehrig's disease ALS
Hawking (1942 – 2018) had a rare early-onset, slow-progressing form of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that has gradually paralysed him over the decades. He communicated using a single cheek muscle attached to a speech-generating device.
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