Today is World Lupus Day, created to help us understand that this seemingly random grab bag of symptoms is actually a debilitating, chronic autoimmune disease suffered by approximately 5 million people worldwide, with 1.5 million of them living in the United States alone.
Awareness events for World Lupus Day are held in most of the continents of the world including, North and South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. Julian Lennon is a Global Ambassador for the Lupus Foundation of America. Lupus claimed the life of Julian’s childhood friend Lucy, who lost her battle with the disease in 2009 at the age of 46.
