tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175681583743369857.post3169127687434953778..comments2022-09-30T13:55:39.865+02:00xronos/blogger.com/profile/13107445158803745642[email protected]Blogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175681583743369857.post-39820250227354673082022-01-02T20:53:42.249+01:002022-01-02T20:53:42.249+01:00The province has struggled to keep the cases under wraps – the case cluster only became public last year when a memo was leaked to the media, and the government has insisted the “cluster” itself is merely the result of “misdiagnoses” grouping unrelated illnesses together. Officials declared in October that eight fatal cases were due to “known and unrelated pathologies,” rather than a shared and unknown illness. An epidemiological report released in October supposedly ruled out any food, behavioral, or environmental exposure that could explain the problem.<br /><br />However, another public health scientist who sought to remain anonymous suggested the government was covering something up. “The fact that we have a younger spectrum of patients here argues very strongly against what appears to be the preferred position of the government of New Brunswick – that the cases in this cluster are being mistakenly lumped together.”xronos/blogger.com/profile/13107445158803745642[email protected]tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1175681583743369857.post-55450251664236789942022-01-02T20:53:03.362+01:002022-01-02T20:53:03.362+01:00One of the more disturbing elements of the condition is how little is known regarding transmission. In at least nine cases, caretakers and others in close contact with sick individuals have developed similar symptoms to the ailing party, suggesting the illness not only spreads readily between unrelated individuals but that there may be environmental factors involved. Some have compared the illness to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain disease caused by misshapen proteins called prions, though screening reportedly produced no confirmed CJD cases.xronos/blogger.com/profile/13107445158803745642[email protected]