Very rapid weight loss, insomnia, hallucinations, reduced mobility or even concentration disorders: a neurological disease worries the province of New Brunswick, in Canada, reports The Guardian. It would mainly affect young people, and would have appeared two years ago. The alert only began in the spring of 2021. Officially, the figures are 48 patients but the daily mentions a larger figure, of 150 people.
Doctors haven’t given her a name yet, don’t know exactly where she came from. Corn the environmental track is explored, following 9 people have developed the symptoms at the same time. While a man was seeing for ataxia (lack of balance) and dementia, his wife had great difficulty sleeping, hallucinating, and other muscle problems.
A clinic specializing in neurodegenerative disorders, called the Mind Clinic in the city of Moncton, is leading the investigation. But the data is complicated to process, to properly distinguish patients whose symptoms may be linked to an existing neurological disease, and those affected by this strange pathology. To establish the diagnosis, it is sometimes necessary to wait for death to carry out the autopsy and the correct examinations.
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