New Brunswick is offering an replace on a cluster of residents with an unknown and probably new neurological syndrome on Wednesday afternoon.
The briefing — which is able to embrace Well being Minister Dorothy Shephard, Dr. Natalie Banville, vice-president of medical affairs for Vitalité Well being Community and Dr. Susan Brien, vice-president medical, tutorial and analysis affairs for Horizon Well being Community — will happen at 2 p.m. AT.
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The occasion will probably be live-streamed right here.
In March, New Brunswick well being officers alerted the province’s medical doctors, nurses and pharmacists in regards to the cluster. The cluster concerned round 50 circumstances, and eight individuals have died in that group since 2019.
Signs are described as being much like these of Creutzfeldt-Jakob illness.
The New Brunswick authorities launched an internet site in April to replace the general public on what it referred to as a “neurological syndrome of unknown trigger.”
A examine led by Dr. Gerard Jansen of the College of Ottawa has since prompt that the unique circumstances had been “misclassified scientific diagnoses.”
— With information from The Canadian Press
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