New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to investigate a mysterious brain illness that's affected more than 400 people in her province.Photo by Stephen MacGillivray/The Canadian Press/File

New Brunswick's new premier wants federal health agency to probe mysterious brain illness

Canadian Institutes for Health Research had offered the former government $5M, as well as resources and expertise, to help investigate potential causes of the disease

by · National Post

New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to help investigate a mysterious brain illness that has touched hundreds of people in her province and appears to be making people sick in neighbouring Nova Scotia.

An oversight committee appointed by Progressive Conservative Blaine Higgs’ former government rejected the idea that the cases are linked. It indicated that most of the patients in the cluster were misdiagnosed. But after meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday, New Brunswick’s new Liberal premier said federal government scientists will get involved.

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