N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 5 new cases, 15 now linked to isolation hotel Delta Fredericton
New Brunswick is reporting five new cases of COVID-19, four of them in Zone 3, where Public Health has now confirmed 15 cases connected to the isolation hotel Delta Fredericton.
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Those afflicted with the condition - called the New Brunswick Cluster of Neurological Syndrome of Unknown Cause, for now - have ranged in age from 18 to 85 (file photo).
Alier Marrero is stumped. For years, the neurologist in Moncton, New Brunswick, has seen patients with symptoms common to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a fatal brain disorder that affects one in 1 million people each year. But diagnostic testing for the rare neurodegenerative syndrome keeps coming back negative, more patients with similar symptoms have turned up each year, and Marrero hasn t found another cause. Federal public health officials last year identified the cases as a cluster meriting further investigation.
N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Special care home resident who died in outbreak had 2 vaccine doses
Four of the five residents of a special care home in Grand Falls who died in a COVID-19 outbreak had received at least one dose of vaccine, and one of them had both doses, the Department of Health has confirmed.
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4 of the 5 residents of Pavillon Beau-Lieu in Grand Falls had at least 1 dose of vaccine, province says
Posted: May 12, 2021 8:00 AM AT | Last Updated: May 12
The COVID outbreak at Pavillon Beau-Lieu, a special care home in Grand Falls, in the Edmundston region, Zone 4, has grown to 53 cases, including 38 residents and 15 staff.(Submitted by Madeleine LeClerc )
N.B. COVID-19 roundup: Cases prompt closure of Fredericton high school
New Brunswick Public Health reported nine new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday and issued a reminder about the importance of getting tested, even though the entire province is back at the yellow alert level for the first time since mid-March.
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Moncton doctors backfilled nurses after Dumont ER felt like war zone
Seven doctors at the Dr. Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital Centre in Moncton stepped in to cover a nursing shortage in the emergency department over the weekend, an organizer of the effort says.
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