The government, along with Ottawa, needs to properly investigate a growing and deadly disease cluster in that province
Last summer, Dr. Alier Marrero told The Globe and Mail that the number of people he was treating at the time with similar symptoms was more than 200. Last week, in an interview published with The New York Times, Dr. Marrero said he has more than 430 such patients in his care. Of them, 111 are under 45, and 39 have died.
And yet the New Brunswick government has chosen to look away. It said in a terse 2022 report that, having re-examined the original 50 cases, there was no evidence of “a neurological syndrome of unknown cause,” and therefore no need to search for a possible environmental contaminant.For starters, it’s a change from the government’s original stance.
As well, the government’s finding doesn’t jibe with the experience of the people suffering from the neurological symptoms found in the cluster. For instance, the government report said the patients were potentially suffering from illnesses that their diagnoses had, in fact, already ruled out.by a group of New Brunswick medical students, scientists and health-care workers – and for yet another compelling reason: testing has shown that as many as 90 per cent of Dr.
But glyphosate is under attack in Canada and elsewhere, as it has been linked to neurological diseases. Quebec stopped using it on Crown land and under powerlines in 2001, and the province allows workers exposed to glyphosate and other herbicides over a long period who come down with Parkinson’s disease to collect compensation. Indigenous groups in New Brunswick and Ontario are also demanding that it stop being used.
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