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29 May, 6 tweets, 3 min read
NEW from @smckinley1: ‘He couldn’t understand what was wrong with him’: Families drawn in to mystery of New Brunswick brain disease face agonizing wait
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Remembered as a good-hearted workaholic; a tough man, strong as an ox — a man who never complained, Cedric Mills died at 62 in 2016.

His daughter, Trina Musseau, has new hope that she and her family may be getting closer to finding out what killed him. thestar.com/news/canada/20…
In early March, public health officials in New Brunswick sent out a memo detailing a brain disease that has been baffling doctors. Now, families across the region and the world are wondering if their loved ones might also have the same affliction.
thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Symptoms included pain in the limbs, muscle spasms, balance difficulties as well as behavioural changes, hallucinations, memory problems and an unexplained weight loss.
thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Of 48 known victims, most have been clustered around New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula, with a few in the Moncton region. Those afflicted between 2013 and 2020 have been split evenly between men and women and have ranged in age from 18 to 85. Six have died.thestar.com/news/canada/20…
Musseau the public health notice description of the disease sounded exactly like what her father had experienced.

She hopes somewhere, within the medical records she kept, doctors might find a clue that would help lead to an answer. thestar.com/news/canada/20…

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