Reports of Significant Increase in ‘Mysterious,’ ‘Dementia-Like’ Brain Disorder

According to multiple reports, a ‘mysterious brain disorder’ is causing potentially deadly ailments in healthy adults across the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Neurological symptoms, including hallucinations, memory loss, and muscle wasting, reportedly started appearing in 2015 in some patients.

However, the number of patients exhibiting the dementia-like disorder has potentially skyrocketed to over 200 in recent years.

The majority of the patients reportedly reside in Moncton and the Acadian Peninsula.

A significant number of cases are impacting young people, which has doctors concerned.

“I am particularly concerned about the increase in numbers of young-onset and early-onset neurological syndrome,” neurologist Dr. Alier Marrero wrote in January.

Dr. Marrero sent a letter to New Brunswick’s chief medical officer and the chief federal public health officer expressing his concerns.

“Over the past year, I have been following 147 cases, between the ages of 17 and 80 years old. Out of those, 57 are early-onset cases and 41 are young-onset cases,” Marrero’s letter said.

🔴 ‘Mysterious’ Brain Disorder Strikes Hundreds. Cases Are Increasing.https://t.co/a28ISMvq0Q

— Resist the Mainstream (@ResisttheMS) July 4, 2023

‘Experts’ said dozens of the victims were healthy before developing the mysterious dementia-like disorder.

Daily Mail described one of the tragic stories and shared what health officials theorize may be the cause of the illness.

One of those patients is Gabrielle Cormier who, at age 20, had to pause her love of figure skating and leave university when she fell ill in 2019, becoming so debilitated that she now needs a wheelchair.

Health officials investigating the cases are probing whether the culprit is food and water contaminated with blue-green algae blooms in water sources.

Another was heavy exposure to the herbicide glyphosate.

What began as an all-hands-on-deck government-wide investigation in 2021 ended in officials insisting in February 2022 that the cases were not related.

The government’s abrupt halt to its probe into the mysterious condition suggested to medical experts that it was aiming to protect its financial interests, namely the area’s massive fishing and forest industries.

One doctor at the center of the mystery, Dr Alier Marrero, continued to press for a government-led investigation and saw patients in New Brunswick presenting with the symptoms, telling Canadaland recently that the number of cases had exceeded 200.

Dr. Jessica Rose hinted at what she believes is the cause of the skyrocketing cases.

“Yeah. Sure. It’s glyphosate. Not saying it couldn’t be partially implicated, but what else could possibly be leading to a ‘mysterious’ brain disorder that’s been starting to rack up since 2021. ‘Doctors’ are baffled,” she said.

Yeah. Sure. It's glyphosate. Not saying it couldn't be partially implicated, but what else could possibly be leading to a 'mysterious' brain disorder that's been starting to rack up since 2021. 'Doctors' are baffled. https://t.co/38fooe9gwt

— Jessica Rose 🤙 (@JesslovesMJK) July 4, 2023

A group of New Brunswick patients and their families expressed outrage over the halted investigation.

“For almost a year, we were led to believe that a thorough and unbiased public health investigation was in progress. We are here to tell you that that did not happen,” Stacie Cormier, one of the patient advocates, said.

The Toronto Star writes:

Cormier’s step daughter who is suffering from neurological decline was also in attendance.

“Provincial and federal health officials are misrepresenting our patient files and information. And they’re using this false information as a reason to abandon a public health inquiry,” said Cormier.

“This months-long investigation found no evidence that a neurological syndrome of unknown cause exists in New Brunswick, or that patients exhibited the same symptoms or shared any common illness,” read a response from the provincial health department, in response to the Star’s inquiry about further investigation.

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“Since no evidence of a common cluster of cases was found to exist, additional investigations were not triggered,” Sean Hatchard, New Brunswick Department of Health spokesperson told the Star.

The advocates who are mostly made up of family members of patients who repeatedly objected to similar statements by the provincial authorities, provided recent data obtained from patients and doctors with whom they have been in contact.

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