Mystery Unknown neurological disease in Canada, no answers or causes..

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JAYNEZTOWN

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 1:31 PM

...or...

dumping pollution, material mining a Wild Animal or Shell Fish toxin?

"Neurologists and scientists suspect the cause might be exposure to an as-yet-undetermined environmental toxin. "

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mystery-neurological-dise
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New Brunswick (French: Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. It is the only province with both French and English as its official languages.
New Brunswick was among the first places in North America to be explored and settled by Europeans. In 1784, after an influx of refugees from the American Revolutionary War settled in the area, the province was founded on territory from the partition of Nova Scotia. In 1785 Saint John became the first incorporated city in what is now Canada
New Brunswick is bordered by Quebec to the north, Maine to the west, Nova Scotia and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the east, and the Bay of Fundy to the south. New Brunswick's terrain is mostly forested uplands. New Brunswick is 85-90% forested and is less densely populated than the other Maritime provinces. In 2013, 64 cruise ships called at Port of Saint John, carrying, on average, 2,600 passengers each

What's happening today with N.B.'s mystery neurological disease
http://www.digitaljournal.com/life/health/what-s-happening-today-with-
n-b-s-mystery-neurological-disease/article/587300

SIGNYM

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 11:16 PM

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News this week that a cluster of more than 40 cases of an unknown neurological disease have been identified and found only in New Brunswick has residents of several communities on edge.

The mystery illness has similarities to
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease,
a rare and fatal brain disease.

What are the prion diseases??

Well, everyone has prion proteins in their brain. Like all proteins, it needs to be a certain shape in order to work. But that shape is unstable and it can be reconfigured into a much more stable shape, and once it's reconfigured it's SO stable it doesn't change back. It can't be digested, and doesn't degrade in the environment. (one early experimenter buried a sample in his backyard garden and dug it up about 10 years later, and it was still active).

Once those stable-shaped prion proteins enter the brain, the healthy prion proteins kind of "nest" onto the bad ones and fold into the bad, dysfunctional shape, creating more templates for more misfolding, eventually leaving the brain looking like a sponge. Hence the name Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy.

This is the basis for the infamous Mad Cow Disease which was able to jump species barriers and infect other mammalian brains after being eaten.

The spontaneous human version is called Creutzfeldt-Jakob. In sheep it's called "scrapie".

But there are other versions out there, and the one that hunters should be wary of is the form in deer called Chronic Wasting Disease, which is spreading environmentally among deer, elk etc across the USA. Once an area has been "seeded" by these misfolded prion proteins (which are apparnetly shed in saliva and maybe urine and feces) it remains infective for as long as the disease has been studied. Years. Decades.

It is inevitably fatal and untreatable; and involves a horrific decline including hypersensitivity to stimulous, hallucinations, and agitation as the brain is turned into Swiss cheese.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has not SO FAR definitively jumped the species barrier to humans, altho there was ONE suspected case of transmission to two people who belonged to a small hunting club who would celebrate together by eating raw meat in a member's cabin.

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/prion-diseases

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First diagnosed in 2015, according to an internal Public Health memo sent this month to medical professionals, the disease affects all age groups and appears to be concentrated in the Acadian Peninsula in northeast New Brunswick and the Moncton region in the southeast.

Forty-three cases have been identified, and five people have died.

Since that news was reported on Wednesday, people in those communities have been wondering how alarmed they should be.

"People are wondering, what is it? Why is it only here? We are hoping that somebody will tell us," Anita Savoie Robichaud, the mayor of Shippagan, a town on the peninsula, said Friday.

Yvon Godin, the mayor of Bertrand, a village further north on the peninsula, who also chairs the Forum of Acadian Peninsula Mayors, agrees.

"We are very, very worried about it," Godin said. "Residents are anxious, they're asking 'Is it moose meat? Is it deer? Is it contagious?' We need to know, as fast as possible, what is causing this disease."

Dr. Neil Cashman understands the concern.

Cashman, a professor in the University of British Columbia's faculty of medicine, is a neurologist with a special expertise in prion diseases — a group of neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles, or prions — including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

When Cashman first heard about the cases in New Brunswick, he says his first thought was, "We have a problem on our hands."

Clearly, he said, "this was a call to arms to identify the cause."

Those efforts are already underway.

Teams of researchers, scientists and epidemiologists began assembling about

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THG

Tuesday, March 23, 2021 11:56 PM

JAYNEZTOWN is Signym.

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JAYNEZTOWN

Saturday, January 8, 2022 11:43 PM

Frightening New Details Emerge About Mystery Brain Illness in Canada

https://gizmodo.com/frightening-new-details-emerge-about-mystery-brain
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SIGNYM

Sunday, January 9, 2022 12:38 AM

Thanks for the follow-up.

Seems as if they've ruled out prions, but there are other scary things out there too.

Domoic acid can accumulate in shellfish and cause acute brain damage in high concentrations. Discharge of high posphate waste into coastal waters promotes the production of domoic acid by red algae. There was an outbreak near SF that was killing seals and sea lions in horrific ways around SF a few years ago.

But food safety officials are usually alert to domoic acid poisoning, so that's prolly already been looked at.

BMAA- a toxin produced by blue-green algae that accumulates in lobsters- has been considered.

Viruses. Now THERE'S a scary thought!

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6IXSTRINGJACK

Sunday, January 9, 2022 4:54 AM

Fauci's putting shit in the ocean now too, huh?

We going to start mandating that Manatees be vaccinated?

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