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I'm not sure why you're linking all these when the disease has been identified to most likely be a prion disease, and not a side-effect of herbicides.
by m00x 6y ago
I'm not sure why you're linking all these when the disease has been identified to most likely be a prion disease, and not a side-effect of herbicides.
- sedachv 6y agoIn terms of chronic exposure of the majority of the population to herbicides, New Brunswick is fairly unique. Why do you think that it is not a plausible hypothesis for "an unknown neurological disease"? If this is a new prion disease from game animals, why has it not shown up in Maine, Québec, or Vermont?
- m00x 6y agoHow is it unique? I used to work for the Ministry of agriculture there and we shared most of our data and procedures with Quebec's.
- sedachv 6y agoAre you serious? Québec land area: 1,365,128 km² Québec total annual timber harvest: 4.8 million m³ New Brunswick land area: 71,450 km² New Brunswick timber harvest from Crown lands: 5.4 million m³ New Brunswick timber harvest from private lands: 3 million m³ Québec protected areas alone are more than twice the size of the whole of New Brunswick. What other populated region in North America is as intensely logged as New Brunswick? Maybe rural Oregon or Washington?
- bigirondba 6y agoYeah, but rural PNW is mountainous valleys. Lots of geographic separation from population centers in terms of tree farming areas. If it’s some sort of “runoff” from logging, unless it hits the water table (water tends to come from wells, not lakes/rivers) it’s unlikely to be easily exposed in the populace.
- betwixthewires 6y agoThe article we are talking about says specifically that no prion diseases tested for have been found and that readers should not jump to the conclusion that this is a prion disease.