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Sounds like long covid and a coverup.
It's specifically affecting people in certain areas of NB. Far more likely the cause is tied back to Irving in some way.
Yeah, this.
Irving owns NB, and if they want to kill a story or stop the government from looking into something, they'll do it. I don't think people outside of the Maritimes understand how bought-and-paid-for the media, the government and most businesses are by Irving.
What is Irving?
They are one of the wealthiest Canadian families who own dozens of businesses in Canada and the US.
Some of the biggest issues with them are their vertical integration (ie: owning the refinery, gas stations, transportaion companies that deliver fuel and construction/engineering firms that maintain their infrastructure), provincial media ownership monopoly and political patronage.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Group_of_Companies
If they could have used covid to cover it up then they would have
Also it was first spotted in 2019, not 2021 like the article says
My first thought was misfolded prions. Sounds like one possible avenue of the potential harmful "environmental exposure" the microbiologist (and CJD researcher) in the article was talking about.