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Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada
BBC News, Toronto ^ | Jessica Murphy

Posted on 05/06/2021 8:40:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin

Radio-Canada, the public broadcaster, obtained a copy of a public health memo that had been sent to the province's medical professionals warning of a cluster of patients exhibiting an unknown degenerative brain disease.

The province says it's currently tracking 48 cases, evenly split between men and women, in ages ranging from 18 to 85. Those patients are from the Acadian Peninsula and Moncton areas of New Brunswick. Six people are believed to have died from the illness.

Most patients began experiencing symptoms recently, from 2018 on, though one is believed to have had them as early as 2013.

Dr Marrero says the symptoms are wide ranging and can vary among patients.

At first, there can be behavioural changes like anxiety, depression and irritability, along with unexplained pain, muscle aches and spasms in previously healthy individuals.

Frequently, patients develop difficulties sleeping - severe insomnia or hypersomnia - and memory problems. There can be fast-advancing language impairments that make it difficult to communicate and hold a fluent conversation - issues like stuttering or word repetition.

Another symptom is rapid weight loss and muscle atrophy, as well as visual disturbances and co-ordination problems, and involuntary muscle twitching. Many patients need the assistance of walkers or wheelchairs.

Some develop disturbing hallucinatory dreams, or waking auditory hallucinations.

Several patients have presented with transient "Capgras delusion", a psychiatric disorder in which a person believes someone close to them has been replaced by an impostor.

For now, the theory is that the disease is acquired, not genetic.

"Our first common idea is that there's a toxic element acquired in the environment of this patient that triggers the degenerative changes,"

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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Something in the water?
1 posted on 05/06/2021 8:40:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

It’s called socialism.


2 posted on 05/06/2021 8:43:57 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: BenLurkin

Something in the masks


3 posted on 05/06/2021 8:44:15 AM PDT by Walrus (I do not consent)
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To: BenLurkin

Old age?


4 posted on 05/06/2021 8:45:15 AM PDT by exnavy
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To: BenLurkin

Bad batch of illicit drugs would be my guess.


5 posted on 05/06/2021 8:45:24 AM PDT by Pollard
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To: BenLurkin

Is it made in China?


6 posted on 05/06/2021 8:45:42 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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Something they’re eating? The symptoms sound a lot like the symptoms of Mad Cow Disease.


7 posted on 05/06/2021 8:46:36 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: BenLurkin
The province says it's currently tracking 48 cases, evenly split between men and women, in ages ranging from 18 to 85.

No clustering?

That is odd.

8 posted on 05/06/2021 8:47:17 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: BenLurkin

COVID19 is also a vascular disease. The spikes can cause small holes in micro vessels that ‘leak’ blood clots. The mRNA happily directs vaccine victims to create even more spikes.


9 posted on 05/06/2021 8:50:49 AM PDT by RideForever (One of the 'control group' ...)
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To: BenLurkin

Sounds like a form of prion disease. Examples of other prion diseases are Creutzfeld-Jacob disease (several forms, including Mad Cow), Kuru (from eating human brains), and familial fatal insomnia, along with a few animal diseases.

I wonder if anyone is looking for misfolded PrP proteins?


10 posted on 05/06/2021 8:51:55 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I take that sentence to mean it is evenly split between the sexes, not the ages.


11 posted on 05/06/2021 8:53:09 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Pollard

Something “pharmaceutical” I bet.


12 posted on 05/06/2021 8:53:22 AM PDT by Codeflier (Covid-19 taught me: Two types of "conservatives", frightened safety seekers vs. freedom lovers)
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The cases started appearing in 2018 (pre-Covid), so acquiring the disease wouldn’t have anything to do with masks or vaccines.


13 posted on 05/06/2021 8:55:39 AM PDT by Kipp
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To: exDemMom

All covid-19 vaccine side effects.


14 posted on 05/06/2021 8:57:05 AM PDT by hotdogjones (Study shows possible link between blood pressure meds and severe cases of COVID-19)
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To: BenLurkin

This would help explain the election of Justin Trudeau.


15 posted on 05/06/2021 8:59:28 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: exDemMom

What happens if/when we are using aborted babies and placing them in human vaccines, medicines, etc.? Is it possible for Kuru to develop from that, especially if baby brains are involved?

(that is so sick a thought, but still...)


16 posted on 05/06/2021 9:04:31 AM PDT by madison10 (Although the wrong seems oft so strong...God is the Ruler yet!)
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To: PghBaldy
Still not usual.

Just about everything hits either men or women harder. And the age range is really large as well. 18-85?

Very curious.

17 posted on 05/06/2021 9:04:54 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (May their path be strewn with Legos, may they step on them with bare feet until they repent. )
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To: hotdogjones

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-04-08-mrna-vaccines-may-cause-your-body-to-churn-out-prions-eat-your-brain-mad-cow-disease.html

https://scivisionpub.com/pdfs/covid19-rna-based-vaccines-and-the-risk-of-prion-disease-1503.pdf


18 posted on 05/06/2021 9:05:27 AM PDT by hotdogjones (Study shows possible link between blood pressure meds and severe cases of COVID-19)
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To: RideForever
Where on Earth are you getting this nonsense? The "spikes" refer to the fact that they're a protrusion from the body of the virus; not that they're a spike that tears holes in things. That's not how things work at that scale. Here's an actual view of the "spike":

The S protein has binding sites that bind to specific cell receptors (ACE2) to enable cell entry. Has nothing to do with ripping holes in things. The end of it is actually more rounded overall, but that's just a generalized shape caused by the specifics of protein folding.

19 posted on 05/06/2021 9:08:11 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: hotdogjones
All covid-19 vaccine side effects.

Did you look at the dates in the article? This is pre-covid, pre-covid "vaccine."

20 posted on 05/06/2021 9:09:33 AM PDT by Disambiguator
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