Patients demand action into investigation of New Brunswickers’ unexplained neurological symptoms

Dozens of patients in New Brunswick suffering from serious unexplained neurological symptoms say they no longer believe that the province’s top doctor can get to the bottom of what’s making them sick and are calling on Canada’s public-health agency to step in and take over the investigation.In a letter sent to New Brunswick’s Acting Chief Public Health Officer Yves Léger last week, a representative for the patients decried the province’s inaction and lack of urgency in probing the root causes and finding interim treatments.The patients also defended a local neurologist, Alier Marrero, one of four doctors who initially alerted health officials about the issue in 2020, and whose concerns have been largely ignored by the province’s health agency, according to correspondence obtained by The Globe and Mail.