Aiming to shed a light.

A DISPLAY stall will be put up at Bedworth Library in High Street to help spread awareness of an increasingly common but little recognised disease.

Joyce Mountford, from the Coventry and Warwickshire Lupus lupus (l

`pəs), noninfectious chronic disease in which antibodies in an individual's immune system attack the body's own substances. Group, will be hoping to highlight lupus, an auto-immune condition more common than leukaemia and multiple sclerosis but still largely unheard of Not heard of; of which there are no tidings.
Unknown to fame; obscure.
- Glanvill.

See also: Unheard Unheard .

Joyce will be at the library from 10am on Tuesday, October 21, ready to speak to the curious and advise those who may have the disease.

The event is part of Lupus Awareness Month.

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