What causes Parkinson's disease is unknown, and it is unclear if Favre's disease is connected to his football career or head injuries.
Retired Super Bowl winning quarterback Brett Favre has announced he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.Parkinson's Foundation CEO John Lehr says 90,000 people in the US will be diagnosed with the disease this year.Retired Super Bowl winning quarterback Brett Favre has announced he has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, speaking to a US congressional committee as part of his testimony about a welfare misspending scandal in Mississippi.
What causes Parkinson's disease is unknown, and it is unclear if Favre's disease is connected to his football career or head injuries.ABC Sport Daily is your daily sports conversation. We dive into the biggest story of the day and get you up to speed with everything else that's making headlines. Favre "is one of the 90,000 people in the US who will be diagnosed with PD this year alone," said Parkinson's Foundation CEO John Lehr.
Favre appeared at the Republican-led House Ways and Means Committee hearing to advocate reform of the US federal welfare system to better prevent fraud. Favre has said he did not know the payments he received came from welfare funds and has noted his charity had provided millions of dollars to poor kids in his home state of Mississippi and in Wisconsin, where he played most of his career with the Green Bay Packers.
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