An oversight committee said 48 people should have never been diagnosed with an 'unknown' brain disorder, but some say the dementia-like cases need more study.
the Guardian that more cases with similar symptoms—as many as 150 people—had been unofficially documented by doctors, including cases of shared symptoms within a household, which could suggest a shared cause or risk factor. Some independentesfrustrated by the investigation, arguing that possibly important clues were being dismissed or outright ignored by officials. The investigation also seemed to sideline the neurologist who first found these cases, Alier Marrero.
On February 24, the findings of an oversight committee appointed by the local government to look into the cluster were finally made public. The committee, led by neurologists across the province, only looked at the 48 official cases and concluded that there was no real connection between them.
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