‘The answer cannot be nothing’: The battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease
‘The answer cannot be nothing’: The battle over Canada’s mystery brain disease8 hours agoShareSaveJoel Gunter,senior international reporter, New BrunswickandNadine Yousif,senior Canada reporter, New BrunswickShareSaveBBCFive hundred people in a small Canadian province were diagnosed with a mystery brain disease. What would it mean for the patients if the disease was never real?In early 2019, officials at a hospital in the small Canadian province of New Brunswick noticed that two patients had contracted an extremely rare brain condition known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, or CJD.CJD is both fatal and potentially contagious, so a group of experts was quickly assembled to investigate. Fortunately for New Brunswick, the disease didn’t spread. But the story didn’t end there. In fact, it was…
