Premier Susan Holt says there ‘may be multiple things that are at play’ when it comes to what’s causing neurological symptoms in hundreds of New Brunswickers. (CBC)
Premier Susan Holt says it’s critical the province push ahead with its investigation into what’s making some New Brunswickers sick, despite a new scientific study that found no evidence of a mystery brain disease.
“There’s too many unanswered questions for us to stop the work that Public Health is doing to be able to provide patients — and potentially future patients — with the information they need about what’s causing these illnesses,” Holt told reporters Thursday in Fredericton during her weekly update on U.S. tariffs.
She was responding to questions about a report, published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, known as JAMA.
Thirteen Canadian doctors and researchers reassessed 25 of the 222 patients diagnosed by Moncton neurologist Dr. Alier Marrero as having a “neurological syndrome of unknown cause.”
They concluded all of the cases — 14 living and 11 who have died — were attributable to well-known conditions,
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