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New Brunswick (Canada) monitoring more than 40 cases of unknown neurological disease
CBC news ^ | Mar 17, 2021

Posted on 03/17/2021 7:14:14 PM PDT by jerod

Memo sent to health-care professionals in province says symptoms are similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

Public Health is closely monitoring a cluster of more than 40 New Brunswick patients with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatal brain disease.

In an internal memo obtained by Radio-Canada, sent on March 5 by the office of the chief medical officer of health to the New Brunswick Medical Society and to associations of doctors and nurses, the department notes the existence of a cluster of 42 cases of a progressive neurological syndrome of unknown origin.

A first case was diagnosed in 2015, according to the memo. Three years later, in 2019, 11 additional cases were discovered, 24 more cases in 2020 and another six cases in 2021. Five people have died.

The disease affects all age groups and appears to be concentrated in the Acadian Peninsula in northeast New Brunswick and the Moncton region in the southeast.

"We are collaborating with different national groups and experts; however, no clear cause has been identified at this time," the memo states.

According to preliminary data from a research group on the subject, headed by neurologist Alier Marrero of Moncton's Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre, said the disease is not genetic and could be contracted from water, food or air...

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: 2015; 2019; 2020; acadia; brain; braindisease; canada; cjd; creutzfeldtjakob; dementia; disease; encephalopathy; health; madcowdisease; moncton; newbrunswick; prions; spongiform
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1 posted on 03/17/2021 7:14:14 PM PDT by jerod
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To: jerod

It’s just covid.


2 posted on 03/17/2021 7:15:21 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults. )
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To: Jonty30

With some ‘Mad Cow’ added in... Just for fun.


3 posted on 03/17/2021 7:17:05 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Jonty30

100% not related to any vaccine....


4 posted on 03/17/2021 7:17:13 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: jerod

Can we assume that they have not been kissing the cod?


5 posted on 03/17/2021 7:17:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: KC_Lion

That’s guaranteed!!! Canada doesn’t have any vaccine to speak of.


6 posted on 03/17/2021 7:18:39 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: null and void

HE: "And now it's mad cow."
SHE: "Ping Null and Void.
7 posted on 03/17/2021 7:19:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: jerod

That’s some serious “Gain of function”

Isn’t gain of function Fauci’s pet project?


8 posted on 03/17/2021 7:20:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: Paladin2

That’s Newfoundland. In New Brunswick they choke herring for some odd reason. ‘Herring Chokers’


9 posted on 03/17/2021 7:20:17 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: KC_Lion

“100% not related to any vaccine....”

you can’t know that. but I agree that it is highly unlikely.

it is possible that they are cannibals and when they eat the brains of someone infected....


10 posted on 03/17/2021 7:22:24 PM PDT by algore
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To: KC_Lion

Three of the deaths are people who had cataract surgery... Oddly enough.


11 posted on 03/17/2021 7:25:36 PM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: jerod

Brain disease...has Biden visited there?


12 posted on 03/17/2021 7:26:10 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: jerod

I was up in the woods of Quebec many solar orbits ago. They have some great smokehouse whitefish along the roadsides. Smoked, but not sure if they were choked.


13 posted on 03/17/2021 7:26:25 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: jerod

I think that biopsies of the brain tissue of affected victims need to be obtained and sent for analysis ASAP to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.


14 posted on 03/17/2021 7:28:04 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: jerod

Mad Canuk Disease.


15 posted on 03/17/2021 7:28:06 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: algore

Chaco Chicken—Good People, Good Food....


16 posted on 03/17/2021 7:29:06 PM PDT by freedombird (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. -A. DeTocqueville)
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To: House Atreides

And more than ASAP ... URGENTLY! /sarc


17 posted on 03/17/2021 7:29:08 PM PDT by House Atreides
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To: jerod

Denny Crane !!!


18 posted on 03/17/2021 7:30:06 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: House Atreides

Send fauci along


19 posted on 03/17/2021 7:31:06 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: jerod

Is that an area known for caribou?


20 posted on 03/17/2021 7:32:17 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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