New Brunswick redoubling efforts to solve mystery behind unknown brain disease that has killed six
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.New Brunswick's provincial flag flies in Ottawa on July 3, 2020. New Brunswick's Health Department has launched a website to provide public updates on a mysterious neurological syndrome in the province that has impacted at least 48 people and claimed six lives.
“All of these diseases start pretty much the same way,” he added, “with a little bit of cognitive disorder, some strange muscle movements. And it’s only over time that specialists can say, ‘This seems to be more this than that.”’ The provincial Health Department says the first case of the disease dates back to 2015, but a potential cluster of cases wasn’t identified by federal officials until December 2020.Shephard said the federal Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System spotted a pattern of symptoms among patients last year and then ruled out the possibility that the syndrome was a human prion disease like CJD.
Shephard declined to be more specific when asked to describe where the patients are from. “They’re not just secluded to two areas,” she said. “It would be short-sighted to start targeting areas.”
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