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New Brunswick health officials are alerting the province’s doctors, nurses and pharmacists about a growing cluster of people with a neurological syndrome of unknown origin.

Symptoms of the condition are similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare degenerative brain disorder, chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell told reporters Thursday.

NB Health Authority contacts over 700 patients after detecting rare degenerative brain disease

There are 43 cases under investigation in the province, with 35 confirmed and eight suspected cases, Russell said.

“It most likely is a new disease. We haven’t seen this anywhere else,” she said. The condition has largely been detected by doctors in the Moncton region and the northeastern part of the province, she said.

“We have a lot of work ahead of us in terms of trying to determine the cause, so it’s too early really to say very much more,” Russell said.


News of the unknown syndrome first emerged through a March 5 memo from deputy chief medical officer of health Dr. Cristin Muecke to the province’s various medical professional associations. The note asks anyone who suspects they may have come across a patient with the illness to refer them to a specialized clinic.

“We are collaborating with different national groups and experts; however, no clear cause has been identified at this time,” Muecke said in the memo.


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N.B. health officials tracking cluster of patients with unknown brain disease​

By Sarah Smellie in St. John's with a file from Danielle Edwards The Canadian Press
Posted March 18, 2021 12:02 pm

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New Brunswick health officials are alerting the province’s doctors, nurses and pharmacists about a growing cluster of people with a neurological syndrome of unknown origin.
Symptoms of the condition are similar to those of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare degenerative brain disorder, chief medical officer of health Dr. Jennifer Russell told reporters Thursday.
READ MORE: N.B. health authority contacts over 700 patients after detecting rare degenerative brain disease
There are 43 cases under investigation in the province, with 35 confirmed and eight suspected cases, Russell said.
“It most likely is a new disease. We haven’t seen this anywhere else,” she said. The condition has largely been detected by doctors in the Moncton region and the northeastern part of the province, she said.
“We have a lot of work ahead of us in terms of trying to determine the cause, so it’s too early really to say very much more,” Russell said.

News of the unknown syndrome first emerged through a March 5 memo from deputy chief medical officer of health Dr. Cristin Muecke to the province’s various medical professional associations. The note asks anyone who suspects they may have come across a patient with the illness to refer them to a specialized clinic.
“We are collaborating with different national groups and experts; however, no clear cause has been identified at this time,” Muecke said in the memo.
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According to the memo, the first known case dates to 2015 but was identified later. Eleven more were found in 2019, 24 were detected in 2020 and four more had been identified in 2021 at the time the memo was written. A Health Department spokesperson said three more cases have since been flagged for investigation.
Five people with the unknown syndrome have died, the memo said. Symptoms include rapidly progressing dementia, muscle spasms, atrophy and a host of other complications.
An equal number of men and women have been afflicted with the illness, and the median age of the patients is 59 years old, though the average female patient is 54 and the average male patient is 62, Muecke said in the memo. By contrast, dementia is most prevalent in people over 65, according to Statistics Canada.
“The unfortunate part is that it is affecting some younger people, so it is something that we’re looking into right now and collecting as much information as we can,” Russell said Thursday.

When asked why the memo was sent March 5 given that cases have been developing over several years, Russell said the situation has been evolving. “We’ve been working with our local physicians and public health, and at the national level,” she said. “So once they decided it did meet the criteria for a cluster and that we should be looking further into it, that’s when we started that process.”
 
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People who are were aboot maple syrup and / or poutine were already in the early stages of a fearsome illness.
 
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the first known case dates to 2015 but was identified later. Eleven more were found in 2019, 24 were detected in 2020 and four more had been identified in 2021 at the time the memo was written.
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So even if this is infectious, which is doubtful, this is an incredibly slow burn and probably won't amount to much of anything.
Either way, it's probably best to wall off Canada just to be sure. Cut off their internet access too. We still don't know how tbis shit spreads.
 
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I knew it. This is exactly what people were warned about with this new RNA vaccine. Injecting random, possibly degenerate strains of RNA into people's cells can lead to malformed protein production. Prions are malformed proteins.
 
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L50LasPak said:
I knew it. This is exactly what people were warned about with this new RNA vaccine. Injecting random, possibly degenerate strains of RNA into people's cells can lead to malformed protein production. Prions are malformed proteins.
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Rainbows, I see so much rainbows right now.
A vaccine that could turn your RNA into toxic brain virus?
The stuff of optimism. Maybe we'll actually get a zombie apocalypse.
 
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Absolutetense said:
Rainbows, I see so much rainbows right now.
A vaccine that could turn your RNA into toxic brain virus?
The stuff of optimism. Maybe we'll actually get a zombie apocalypse.
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The vaccine does not affect the body's RNA, it contains prefabricated strands of RNA. RNA is essentially a set of chemical instructions for the cell ribosome to contruct protein chains for various bodily functions. The crux of the RNA vaccine is that the RNA in the injection will instruct the ribosomes to synthesize antibody proteins which will hypotheticlaly give the immune system a boost while fighting the virus.

The problem is, the incomplete or damaged RNA strands could lead to those "instructions" becoming corrupted, causing the ribosomes to manufacture malformed proteins chains. These malformed protein chains are called prions, which are directly responsible for degenerative brain diseases like Cruzfield-Jakob and Mad Cow Disease. Prions are not a virus or a bacteria, they are inert, largely indestructible matter, which is why there is no known cure for any kind of prion disease and why your immune system is powerless to fight this threat.

No problem, just make sure the RNA does not degenerate, right? RNA is incredibly fragile, especially in laboratory conditions. When the body manufactures RNA, it is only supposed to stay readable for a very brief window of time. RNA carried by viruses is protected by the viral protein sheath and preserved that way. But the RNA in these new vaccines is not protected by anything, which is why the vaccines become useless after only a few days and need to be stored in very carefully controlled conditions. Any variation in the temperature or conditions that the vaccines are kept in or even just taking too long to administer them could result in some or all of the RNA in the vaccine degenerating or fragmenting.

The chance is therefore very high that these RNA vaccines can contain fragmented RNA across the board. The overwhelming majority of fragmented or degenerate RNA would contain information that is too garbled to be interpreted as instructions for the ribosomes to create much of anything, prions or otherwise. But because we don't know the precise circumstances prions can be formed under, we are essentially rolling the dice with every single fragmented piece of RNA injected into a person. Each vaccine could contain thousands.
 
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I knew it. This is exactly what people were warned about with this new RNA vaccine. Injecting random, possibly degenerate strains of RNA into people's cells can lead to malformed protein production. Prions are malformed proteins.
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I don't think it's vaccine-related, as according to the article the first identified case of this unknown disease was in 2015.
 
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I don't think it's vaccine-related, as according to the article the first identified case of this unknown disease was in 2015.
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Its possible the outbreak is limited to discarded neural tissue from slaughterhouses somehow leaking into the groundwater, that has actually happened before in both the United States and the UK. The RNA vaccination method was also undergoing clinical studies in a few different locaitons for the last few years since its a new process, though this was obviously unrelated to COVID. We have no means of knowing where those trials were conducted anyway.

I obviously still think its damn suspicious, but I'll also be the first to admit they should be testing the ground water in the area too.
 
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L50LasPak said:
The vaccine does not affect the body's RNA, it contains prefabricated strands of RNA. RNA is essentially a set of chemical instructions for the cell ribosome to contruct protein chains for various bodily functions. The crux of the RNA vaccine is that the RNA in the injection will instruct the ribosomes to synthesize antibody proteins which will hypotheticlaly give the immune system a boost while fighting the virus.

The problem is, the incomplete or damaged RNA strands could lead to those "instructions" becoming corrupted, causing the ribosomes to manufacture malformed proteins chains. These malformed protein chains are called prions, which are directly responsible for degenerative brain diseases like Cruzfield-Jakob and Mad Cow Disease. Prions are not a virus or a bacteria, they are inert, largely indestructible matter, which is why there is no known cure for any kind of prion disease and why your immune system is powerless to fight this threat.

No problem, just make sure the RNA does not degenerate, right? RNA is incredibly fragile, especially in laboratory conditions. When the body manufactures RNA, it is only supposed to stay readable for a very brief window of time. RNA carried by viruses is protected by the viral protein sheath and preserved that way. But the RNA in these new vaccines is not protected by anything, which is why the vaccines become useless after only a few days and need to be stored in very carefully controlled conditions. Any variation in the temperature or conditions that the vaccines are kept in or even just taking too long to administer them could result in some or all of the RNA in the vaccine degenerating or fragmenting.

The chance is therefore very high that these RNA vaccines can contain fragmented RNA across the board. The overwhelming majority of fragmented or degenerate RNA would contain information that is too garbled to be interpreted as instructions for the ribosomes to create much of anything, prions or otherwise. But because we don't know the precise circumstances prions can be formed under, we are essentially rolling the dice with every single fragmented piece of RNA injected into a person. Each vaccine could contain thousands.
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Dude, if it worked that way, tons of viruses would be capable of causing a prion disease. As in, literally any positive sense rna virus could potentially do it.
 
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Dude, if it worked that way, tons of viruses would be capable of causing a prion disease. As in, literally any positive sense rna virus could potentially do it.
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Hypothetically, yes, that risk is there, but viruses release nowhere near the volume of RNA as people are getting in the vaccines. We're talking like, exponentially larger amounts here, drastically increasing the odds.
 
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The vaccine does not affect the body's RNA, it contains prefabricated strands of RNA. RNA is essentially a set of chemical instructions for the cell ribosome to contruct protein chains for various bodily functions. The crux of the RNA vaccine is that the RNA in the injection will instruct the ribosomes to synthesize antibody proteins which will hypotheticlaly give the immune system a boost while fighting the virus.

The problem is, the incomplete or damaged RNA strands could lead to those "instructions" becoming corrupted, causing the ribosomes to manufacture malformed proteins chains. These malformed protein chains are called prions, which are directly responsible for degenerative brain diseases like Cruzfield-Jakob and Mad Cow Disease. Prions are not a virus or a bacteria, they are inert, largely indestructible matter, which is why there is no known cure for any kind of prion disease and why your immune system is powerless to fight this threat.

No problem, just make sure the RNA does not degenerate, right? RNA is incredibly fragile, especially in laboratory conditions. When the body manufactures RNA, it is only supposed to stay readable for a very brief window of time. RNA carried by viruses is protected by the viral protein sheath and preserved that way. But the RNA in these new vaccines is not protected by anything, which is why the vaccines become useless after only a few days and need to be stored in very carefully controlled conditions. Any variation in the temperature or conditions that the vaccines are kept in or even just taking too long to administer them could result in some or all of the RNA in the vaccine degenerating or fragmenting.

The chance is therefore very high that these RNA vaccines can contain fragmented RNA across the board. The overwhelming majority of fragmented or degenerate RNA would contain information that is too garbled to be interpreted as instructions for the ribosomes to create much of anything, prions or otherwise. But because we don't know the precise circumstances prions can be formed under, we are essentially rolling the dice with every single fragmented piece of RNA injected into a person. Each vaccine could contain thousands.
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So what you're saying is, buy your zombie apocalypse supplies now and watch the North.
 
Watch out this is going to turn into an irl zombie outbreak lol.

There's something catchy about the phrase "Canadian zombies" to me, "we're gonna eat your braaaains, eh?"
 
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