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It’s so Joever
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« on: May 15, 2021, 04:12:16 PM »
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/mystery-brain-disease-frustrated-families-1.5990738
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« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2021, 04:58:02 PM »
We have a similar disease in Belgium that makes people speak West Flemish.
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« Reply #2 on: May 15, 2021, 05:44:50 PM »
My two cents:

If it’s a small regional cluster, with no established history of symptoms in the region, then it’s unlikely to be genetic. It has to be a pathogen, or an environmental contaminant.

If it was bacterial or viral, the biopsy or lumbar puncture would probably show a high titre of a well-known strain or family.

So, either it’s something prion-related (but novel enough to evade detection thus far), an environmental toxin (some neutotoxic chemical that’s been overlooked), or something entirely novel.

Definitely interesting.
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« Reply #3 on: May 15, 2021, 05:51:37 PM »
What the f*** is that piece? Reads like something out of The Onion.
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« Reply #4 on: May 15, 2021, 08:24:12 PM »
Ugh, here we go again.
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« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2021, 04:23:32 AM »
Quote from: TheTide on May 15, 2021, 05:51:37 PM
What the f*** is that piece? Reads like something out of The Onion.

Reality overtook satire in several respects some time ago.
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« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2022, 05:42:37 PM »
The plot thickens:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/02/neurological-illness-affecting-young-adults-canada
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2022, 04:56:19 AM »
No chance of it spreading to the US...
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« Reply #8 on: February 05, 2022, 07:47:20 AM »

How else to explain Marjorie Taylor Greene, though?
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« Reply #9 on: February 05, 2022, 09:23:39 AM »
Quote from: CumbrianLefty on February 05, 2022, 07:47:20 AM

How else to explain Marjorie Taylor Greene, though?

Same as all Yankees: lack of brains.
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« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2022, 09:57:53 AM »
Hot take: This is the next pandemic.
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« Reply #11 on: February 05, 2022, 11:26:23 AM »

Yeah, and the world also ended in 2012
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« Reply #12 on: February 05, 2022, 06:03:43 PM »
Yeah, it's called United Empire Loyalism, it's been there for a few hundred years.
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