Doctors investigate mystery brain disease in Canada

[discocrisco01]

Doctors in Canada have been coming across patients showing symptoms similar to that of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare fatal condition that attacks the brain. But when they took a closer look, what they found left them stumped.

Almost two years ago, Roger Ellis collapsed at home with a seizure on his 40th wedding anniversary.

In his early 60s, Mr Ellis, who was born and raised around New Brunswick's bucolic Acadian peninsula, had been healthy until that June, and was enjoying his retirement after decades working as an industrial mechanic.

His son, Steve Ellis, says after that fateful day his father's health rapidly declined.

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56910393

[JohnSJ]

1. Is mad cow disease implicated in this? Did Canada obtain the infected cattle during that

period

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease can take years to develop in some cases

It will be interesting what they find out

[Wingus Dingus]

2. They haven't found evidence of prions, apparently.

They're looking further at environmental/natural toxins such as blue green algae toxins, because it's a limited area that's been affected so far. Still, pretty scary.

[JohnSJ]

3. yes it is

[Bayard]

4. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease

What happens when you feed cattle cow chow that is made from dead cattle.

[dawg day]

5. There's also a genetic variant.

[mitch96]

6. "feed cattle cow chow that is made from dead cattle" ugg thats gross.. Soylent green. nt

[Bayard]

7. It also has chicken poop in it

[mitch96]

8. double yuck...nt

[Bayard]

9. Even more alarming if you google Johne's Disease

There's no prevention and no cure in cattle. It has been linked to Crohn's Disease in humans. I had a pet Brahma steer die from it when I lived in Calif.

[mitch96]

10. "I had a pet Brahma steer"...Now THAT is a big pet... nt

[Bayard]

11. He was such a sweetheart--Cowster

I had borrowed him originally to get my horses used to seeing cattle on all sides of us. After awhile, I got attached to him and bought him.

He loved peppermints.