And so it begins: Doctors alarmed by new ‘mad cow’ brain disease

Prion disease?

Doctors are increasingly alarmed about a mysterious brain disorder that resembles mad cow disease and has left people in eastern Canada with memory loss, hallucinations and muscle wasting.

For a year health officials in the sparsely populated coastal province of New Brunswick have been monitoring a “cluster” of 43 cases of the neurological disease. Five people have died.

The public have been advised not to panic but politicians are urgently calling for answers.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/new-mad-cow-brain-condition-alarms-doctors-canada-87z9ncb8d

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