New Brunswick to begin review of mystery brain disease cases, Chief Medical Officer says
March 27, 2025
New Brunswick’s Chief Medical Officer says the government will begin analyzing data into a mystery brain disease that has affected hundreds of people in the past several years.Dr. Yves Léger told reporters today that his office will review 222 files with the Public Health Agency of Canada into what the province calls an “undiagnosed neurological illness.”In 2021, the provincial government under the Progressive Conservatives started investigating 48 patients with neurological symptoms of unknown origin, and since then more than 400 people have reported symptoms such as intense pain and muscle spasms.
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