A whistleblower from a health authority in the New Brunswick province of Canada has said that more people are developing symptoms for a new mysterious degenerative neurological condition that is affecting young adults.
The anonymous whistleblower works at Vitalité Health Network, which is one of two authorities in the province on Canada’s Atlantic coast.
The New Brunswick Office of the Chief Medical Officer of Health has publicly released figures of 48 people suffering from the disease and nine people dying from it. But the whistleblower says that the real number is much higher, and the cluster could now be as high as 150 with a backlog of cases specifically pertaining to young adults requiring assessment still.
Symptoms include memory issues, hallucinations, limb pain, muscle spasms, and extreme and unexplained weight loss. No prior health triggers have been determined especially within the cases in young adults.
The whistleblower said that going public is necessary in order to raise awareness about the severity of the disease, as well as how quickly it spreads and affects its patients.
According to the individual, researchers have been analyzing the condition for over two years, but there still remains no understanding as to what causes it.
Originally, the illness was hypothesized to be some kind of a human prion disease, which is a disease where proteins called prions make normal proteins fold abnormally. Tests, however, have shown that this is not what the illness is, stumping researchers.
The employee said that this is not a New Brunswick disease specifically and that it is likely that it is because the province is mostly rural and in an area where people are more exposed to environmental factors that there is a cluster there.
The disease was first made public in 2021 when a memo was leaked to the media.
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