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Question
A relentlessly fatal disease resulting in progressive degeneration of motor neurons with death a few months or years after onset is:
A. multisystems atrophy
B. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)
C. Wilsons disease
D. Friedreichs ataxia
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