Every two minutes: A new case of epilepsy is diagnosed

The Epilepsy Foundation shows on their site that there are 200,000 cases of epilepsy diagnosed each year (it appears they are referring to the US only). To put this number into perspective, it occured to me that this really amounts to a new case diagnosed every two minutes.

Other Two Minute Facts
Every two minutes …
a woman is sexually assaulted
a woman dies of cervical cancer
a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer

So set your watch
Every two minutes, a person is diagnosed with epilepsy.

More Numbers
Check out our Epilepsy by the Numbers.

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