Posted on 03/31/2021 1:25:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin
[P]reviously unknown brain disease amid a string of cases involving memory loss, hallucinations and muscle atrophy.
The majority of cases are linked to the Acadian peninsula, a sparsely populated region in the north-eastern part of the province. The overall number of cases in the cluster remains low but New Brunswick has a population of fewer than 800,000 people.
Health officials have refused to disclose the precise locations of the cases. For more than a year public health officials have been tracking a “cluster” of 43 cases of suspected neurological disease in the province with no known cause.
Residents first learned of the investigation last week after a leaked memo from the province’s public health agency asked physicians to be on the lookout for symptoms similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease ...
A number of the symptoms including memory loss, vision problems and abnormal jerking movements triggered an alert with Canada’s CJD surveillance network. Despite the initial similarities, screening produced no confirmed cases of CJD.
[P]atients initially complained of unexplained pains, spasms and behavioural changes – all symptoms that could be easily diagnosed as anxiety or depression.
But over 18 to 36 months they began developing cognitive decline, muscle wasting, drooling and teeth chattering. A number of patients also began experiencing frightening hallucinations, including the feeling of insects crawling on their skin.
In order for a new case to be included in the New Brunswick “cluster”, Marrero and his team conduct an extensive study of the patient’s history, as well as a battery of tests including brain imaging, metabolic and toxicology tests and spinal taps, to rule out other possible illnesses like dementia, neurodegenerative disorders, autoimmune disorders and possible infections
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
“We don’t get it, eh. The kids were perfectly normal until we sent them off to college and now they’re shambling around like zombies mumbling ‘Whiteness. Whiteness everywhere.’ And we tell them this is Canada in wintertime, what do you expect, the sands of the freakin’ Kalihari?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uJWCUAdiHE
“A mysterious organism infests the waterways of North Carolina, attacking not only the fish, but also the fishermen.”
Similar?
“Oxalates cannot be detected by an X-ray or sonic scan or MRI.”
??? My oxalate kidney stone was capable of being imaged.
Your Screen Name seems particularly well chosen.
ML/NJ
Chronic Wasting Disease?
Deer, moose meat?
Do they use a lot of rapeseed oil?
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/rapeseed/reporter/can?redirect=true
A Closer Look at Erucic acid
https://www.seventhwaveuk.com/content/117-is-rapeseed-really-a-healthy-oil
Erucic Acid is an omega 9 oil, and certainly has inflammatory properties. It can irritate mucous membranes, damage the myelin sheath, interfere with vitamin E and can even causes myocardial lipidosis (fatty degeneration of the heart). Whilst these results are from animal studies on rats (which we do not endorse for reference), the results have been dramatic, and over the years have been enough for governments to place clear restrictions on what are considered safe limits of eruric acid.
Or could be this:
http://www.tonu.org/2016/11/18/poisoning-acadian-peninsula/
I wish them luck.
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