NB Families Bemoan Lack of Information From Province on Mystery Brain Disease

Families search for answers as loved ones suffer from fatal neurological illness

Steve Ellis (L) with his father, Roger Ellis, who suffers from a mysterious neurological syndrome that has appeared in clusters in New Brunswick, in Bathurst, N.B., in August 2020. Courtesy of Steve Ellis

BATHURST, New Brunswick—Sufferers of a mysterious brain disease and their families in New Brunswick are complaining that provincial health officials are denying them information about the illness.

“People are dying,” Steve Ellis told The Epoch Times. “My father has been sick for two years, and 18 to 36 months is the lifespan of this disease. I don’t know how much more time my father has left.”