Mystery brain disease in New Brunswick Canada

[Magical Realist]

https://boingboing.net/2025/02/06/myster...anges.html

"In 2021, I wrote a short item titled "Canada investigating a cluster of 42 cases of a mad cow-like brain disease." CBC reported at the time that the first case had been diagnosed in 2015. The mystery disease had killed 5 people by 2021. All of the people afflicted lived in the New Brunswick area.

Today, the number of people in New Brunswick has risen to more than 400, with 48 deaths, and researchers are still baffled as to the cause. According to CTV News, symptoms include "memory problems, balance issues, behavioural changes, muscle spasms and bursts of intense pain."

[C C]

Another prion caused illness, whatever old or new variety it is that they classify it as in the end. I don't eat wild meat anymore (chronic wasting disease), because it requires extremely hot temperatures to destroy or completely neutralize those mutant proteins.

About Prion Diseases
https://www.cdc.gov/prions/about/index.html

[Yazata]

The cynic in me believes that the worst mystery Canadian brain disease is called 'NDP' (New Democratic Party)...

If this New Brunswick one is spreading (400+ cases, 48 deaths) then the epidemiologists need to learn how it is being transmitted. If it's a prion disease, do the sufferers have a similar diet? Or have prions found another way to spread, by air transmission or something alarming like that?