FOG BLOG NB NEWS LOG: THE MYSTERY OF THE CJD MIMIC CASES HERE IN THE PROVINCE!

Public Health officials won't reveal specifically where in New Brunswick more than 40 cases of a mystery neurological disease have been identified, citing the "sensitive" and "confidential" nature of the information.

News last week that a cluster of cases of an unknown neurological disease has been found in New Brunswick immediately had residents of several communities on edge.

First diagnosed in 2015, according to a Public Health memo sent this month to medical professionals, the disease appears to be concentrated in the Acadian Peninsula in northeast New Brunswick and the Moncton region in the southeast. Forty-three cases have been identified, and five people have died.

Although the mystery illness has similarities to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as CJD, a rare and fatal brain disease, the memo noted that "testing for CJD so far has ruled out known prion diseases."