by Vanessa Chalmers at The New York Post
A mystery brain illness that is baffling Canadian doctors is increasingly affecting young people, a doctor has claimed.
People who care for patients with the progressively worsening disease are also bizarrely becoming sick, as though it is catching.
The disease has been instilling confusion and fear for two years with health officials in the affected area, New Brunswick, no closer to discovering the cause.
Symptoms listed by health chiefs include memory problems, muscle spasms, balance issues, difficulty walking or falls, hallucinations, unexplained weight loss, and pain in the limbs.
The illness is similar to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, (CJD), a rare and fatal brain disease, one form of which is known as “Mad Cow Disease”.
A whistleblower has said the condition is alarming doctors, two years after it was first discovered in the spring of 2019.
Speaking to the Guardian, the employee with Vitalité Health Network, one of the province’s two health authorities, said suspected cases are growing in young people.
Young people are not typically at risk of neurodegenerative diseases, and those affected appeared previously healthy.
The source said: “I’m truly concerned about these cases because they seem to evolve so fast. I’m worried for them and we owe them some kind of explanation.”
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