Posted on 01/11/2026 2:51:08 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Five hundred people in a small Canadian province were diagnosed with a mystery brain disease. What would it mean for the patients if the disease was never real?
In early 2019, officials at a hospital in the small Canadian province of New Brunswick noticed that two patients had contracted an extremely rare brain condition known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.
CJD is both fatal and potentially contagious, so a group of experts was quickly assembled to investigate. Fortunately for New Brunswick, the disease didn't spread. But the story didn't end there. In fact, it was just beginning.
Among the experts was Alier Marrero, a soft-spoken, Cuban-born neurologist who had been working in the province for about six years. Marrero would share some worrying information with the other members of the group. He had been seeing patients with unexplained CJD-like symptoms for several years, he said, including young people who showed signs of a rapidly progressing dementia. The number of cases was already more than 20, Marrero said, and several patients had already died.
Because of the apparent similarity to CJD, Marrero had been reporting these cases to Canada's Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System, or CJDSS. But the results had been coming back negative. Marrero was stumped.
More worrying still, he was seeing a dizzying array of symptoms among the patients, according to his notes. There were cases of dementia, weight loss, unsteadiness, jerking movements and facial twitches. There were patients with spasms, visions, limb pain, muscle atrophy, dry skin and hair loss. Many said they were suffering with both insomnia and waking hallucinations. Patients reported excessive sweating and excessive drooling. Several exhibited Capgras Delusion, which causes someone to believe that a person close to them has been replaced by an identical-looking imposter. Others appeared to lose the ability to speak. One...
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Primarily a zapper.... easily made at home from a few electronic components. Runs off a 9V battery.
Vaxx is my theory. Timeline fits. Or a Wendigo.
If it were some kind of prion associated spongioform encephalopathy, all it would take is a CT scan for diagnosis. If glyophosphate, why only in New Brunswick. If a parasite, ivermectin must be the answer. Too early to be due to COVID or shot, if patient 0’s are from 2019.I glossed, but have they run AI program on the data?
Growing up my neighbors ate “squirrel brain pate.” I never tried it. Only later did I learn that it is a vector for this crazy prion thing Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. They never got it to my understanding and might still be eating it with gusto. They seemed pretty normal.
My question with the prion diseases is why doesn’t everyone have it by now? Or all animals when it started infecting them? Like do scavengers and predators all have it from eating the things with prion disease?
Freegards
Maybe it’s the Poutine.
Officially, authorities have ruled out prion disease (like Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease) in New Brunswick’s cases.
“Or the vax?”
So 2022. Get a brain.
If there is any chnce that some, many, or all of the cases are caused by parasites, it would seem prudent to treat the patients with Ivermectin, which might zap the parasites without causing harm if it fails to cure them.
The explanation that all these patients really had a variety of well-known neurological problems should stand or fall on long-term statistics for rates of such diseases. Not clear from the article if the total quantity of neurological cases was unusually high in the first place.
Stay away from CNS tissue - probability of infection is low.
My guess is Rodenticides or other poisons in the ground water. The symptoms sound like Central Nervous System and brain damage. Many rat poisons work that way.
If it’s a prion disease, it has a 100% fatality rate.
After reading through the article, I’d have to agree with the Canadian government that Morrero is a lousy doctor. It seems he conflated several different diseases, including psychosomatic ones, into some kind of “outbreak” of an unknown disease.
bad batch of Poutine?
what you posted is why i refuse to eat wild game ...
Canned dog food can be sliced, made into patties and fried up and it ain’t bad. Or so I’m told.
Eskimos chuckle
A link per chance?
One cause or another the gubmint may be involved & avoiding liability by burying the investigation.
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