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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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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.”

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

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?"

"Sorey aboot your brain."

 

[Chaos Theorist]

John titor predicted this

 

[Male Idiot]

This could be prions but also if it is in the same area, perhaps some kind of poison had been released by some industrial fuck up?

 

[Aib Ld]

First known cases was in 2015 and nothing was done about it, then it was again here in the news? I'm betting it's only in the news now because because of the covid scare like the rat thing in China and the guy saying “It most likely is a new disease" while it has been around, but I'm confused why nothing was done about it back in 2015, like quarantining for research, blood tests, or something.

 

[usernames can change now!]

First known cases was in 2015 and nothing was done about it, then it was again here in the news? I'm betting it's only in the news now because because of the covid scare like the rat thing in China and the guy saying “It most likely is a new disease" while it has been around, but I'm confused why nothing was done about it back in 2015, like quarantining for research, blood tests, or something.

Because there was one case in 2015, which can easily be dismissed as just spontaneous (most cases of CjD are spontaneous protein folding failures). 43 cases in two years in the same spot is much, much different – it implies an environmental cause.

 

[pwnest injun]

This happens every year it's called March Madness, and u can p much trace it back to Africa.

 

[Stoneheart]

Prions fascinate and terrify me. They can be passed via sterilized medical equipment so if these people all shared operating rooms it could be that.

Thats wrong, they can be "killed" with high heat and some chemicals. so equipment should be save, but the room isnt.

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.

that would be right if High school biology was right, I have some friends who are expert in the field of RNA and they are scared to the bone over the Use of this Technology. Thats mostly because RNA is more than just mRNA and mRNA is used for more than just as a work copy of DNA.

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.

They are basicly self replicating Proteins very scary stuff, but chances to produce something like that from the Vaccine RNA is low.

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 bigger Problem is that there is nothing Published about how this RNA is degraded. We know just a bit about the P-Body and what happens to the mRNA. And they didnt even published data about the stuff we know.
It could be degraded into nothing, it could be degraded into regulatory RNA, it could sit around and wait till its activated again.

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.

That kind of degradation is pretty much impossible, mRNA just breaks, there is pretty much no chance of creating something readable from it.
BUT, this comes from the Gen Therapy sidde of medicine, the Vaccine is maybe save, but the next step will be a cure for a couple of illnesses.
This is just a Test, the end goal is a cure for cancer based on this Tech combined with HiV. get the RNA inside the Cell and than copy it into the DNA....

 

[L50LasPak]

Thats wrong, they can be "killed" with high heat and some chemicals. so equipment should be save, but the room isnt.



that would be right if High school biology was right, I have some friends who are expert in the field of RNA and they are scared to the bone over the Use of this Technology. Thats mostly because RNA is more than just mRNA and mRNA is used for more than just as a work copy of DNA.



They are basicly self replicating Proteins very scary stuff, but chances to produce something like that from the Vaccine RNA is low.



The bigger Problem is that there is nothing Published about how this RNA is degraded. We know just a bit about the P-Body and what happens to the mRNA. And they didnt even published data about the stuff we know.
It could be degraded into nothing, it could be degraded into regulatory RNA, it could sit around and wait till its activated again.



That kind of degradation is pretty much impossible, mRNA just breaks, there is pretty much no chance of creating something readable from it.
BUT, this comes from the Gen Therapy sidde of medicine, the Vaccine is maybe save, but the next step will be a cure for a couple of illnesses.
This is just a Test, the end goal is a cure for cancer based on this Tech combined with HiV. get the RNA inside the Cell and than copy it into the DNA....

I wish we still had the Thunkful rating on this board because I don't really disagree with your assessment. But I think regardless of the details that this technology is too new and we know too little about how prions are formed to risk it. I'll fully admit that the RNA in the vaccine could easily break down to nothing, and that there may in reality be no risk at all. But because neither the study of prions or this vaccination technique have matured enough I think risking the scenario I outlined above, on such a massive scale as COVID-19 vaccination, is downright negligent.

 

[Chicken Neck Nelly]

This could be prions but also if it is in the same area, perhaps some kind of poison had been released by some industrial fuck up?

Well this area of NB is nothing but Acadians and aboriginals, it isn't surprising that there would be some congenital brain abnormalities as a result of interbreeding between two groups comprised mostly of mental defectives.

 

[Lame Entropy]

John titor predicted this

Huh I thought you were just shit posting but he did, kinda. Then again WWIII was supposed to happen in 2015 according to him.

 

[Otterly]

Resurrecting this as there was another article in the paper today:

https://archive.is/hAnW4

 

[GunCar Gary]

Resurrecting this as there was another article in the paper today:

https://archive.is/hAnW4

Dr Marrero found elevated levels of glyphosate in roughly 90 percent of the patients he tested. He cautioned that until he compares this to other locals, it will be difficult to draw conclusions about what this means

Certain kinds of blue-green algae blooms produce BMAA, a neurotoxin that can cause dementia-like changes in the brain. At one point, Dr Coulthart suggested this could be contributing to the problem in New Brunswick

so they're trying to blame environmental factors that are present at thousands of other places all over the continent

Concerns were piqued about the investigation when the provincial working group opted not to use the federal funding, the NYT reported.

Shortly after, a slate of meetings to discuss the investigation with experts and the public were cancelled.

'There was a stop, suddenly, abruptly, with no apparent explanation,' Dr Marrero said.

It was less surprising then when the provincial group made their February 2022 announcement, essentially dismissing the idea that the condition exists.

after refusing federal funding from the CIHR and stonewalling any transparency

i don't know what they're covering up but this is "that UFO you saw was just swamp gas" levels of gaslighting

 

[Montalbane]

Apparently the patients have been tested.
The results were horrifying.
All the victims were canadians, so MAID would be a mercy.

 

[Bonesjones]

Probably just some dumb immigrants eating animal brains

 

[Cirrhosis_of_Liver]

Prion diseases are not exclusively spread through brain matter. That's a bro science meme. Consider Chronic Wasting Disease in deer, which can be spread by deer eating grass that grew on dirt where an affected deer peed.

Prions are horrifying.

 

[Dragged Into Sunlight]

so they're trying to blame environmental factors that are present at thousands of other places all over the continent

It makes sense, though. Seafood in that area concentrating enough glyphosate to give people the equivalent of mild nerve gas exposure seems reasonable. Similar how Gulf War Syndrome turned out to be a result of soldiers being exposed to the dregs of burning chemical weapons caches.