Belgium ALS Liga Take on the Mannequin Challenge

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Have you taken part in the latest trend to go viral on the internet? Following the success of the Plank and ALS’s own Ice Bucket Challenge, the latest craze is to gather your friends for the Mannequin Challenge. The Mannequin Challenge requires of a group of people to stand completely still in strange poses while they’re filmed for social media.

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In this video, the research laboratory team from the ALS Liga in Belgium takes on the challenge, but finish the video with a poignant message about what it’s like to have amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

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