It’s been about a year since New Brunswick health officials raised the alarm about a mysterious brain disease afflicting the province’s residents, but on Thursday the province announced an expert oversight committee has determined there is no evidence of such a disease.
Last March, officials alerted doctors, nurses and pharmacists about a cluster of residents with an unknown and potentially new neurological syndrome with symptoms similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob (CJD) disease, but CJD was ruled out in the cases. The cluster of 48 patients reported symptoms such as rapidly progressing dementia, muscle spasms and atrophy.
In a report released Thursday, the committee ruled out a common illness among the 48 and while some had unusual symptoms, the committee wrote that there was “no evidence of a cluster of neurological symptoms of unknown cause.” Suzanne Lapointe reports on what we know.
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