The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is deploying two epidemiologists to New Brunswick in September to support the province’s public health team, at the request of New Brunswick’s public health authority.
The move follows a letter from a high-profile neurologist warning that a growing number of abnormally young patients are facing a rapid onset of neurological symptoms.
Moncton neurologist Dr. Alier Marrero sent a letter to PHAC and New Brunswick public health in January, saying he was seeing an increase in the number of patients, and that some patients were in the “advanced stages of clinical deterioration.”
In a statement, PHAC confirmed
