(Fredericton) New Brunswickers who suffer from a mysterious neurological disorder are calling for an investigation into the possible environmental causes of these conditions, which they have lived with for more than two years.
Steve Ellis, whose father has this strange illness, said at a press conference on Tuesday that federal experts should continue to investigate the causes of this disease.
This neurological disorder causes symptoms like rapidly progressive dementia, muscle spasms, muscle atrophy and a host of other complications.
Stacie Quigley Cormier, whose daughter-in-law suffers from motor, memory and vision problems, accuses state and federal health officials of misrepresenting patient clinical data.
New Brunswick Health Minister Bruce Fitch said Public Health is reviewing a letter received from the patients’ physicians urging the provincial government to screen the patients for possible presence. of glyphosate.
The doctor believes that this popular herbicide might be linked to their health problems.
The New Brunswick government says a review of 48 charts of patients with a neurological syndrome of unknown cause found they did not have common symptoms or the same condition.
Minister Fitch also said the Public Health Agency of Canada supported the findings of the provincial investigation. This investigation also revealed that the patients’ symptoms might be explained by diagnoses of known syndromes, such as Alzheimer’s disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
