Is there a link between motor neurone disease and blue-green algae? NSW expert calls for closer look
Is there a link between motor neurone disease and blue-green algae? NSW expert calls for closer look
A neurology professor wants MND to be listed as a notifiable disease to help investigate suspected environmental links
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A top neurologist has called on the New South Wales government to list motor neurone disease (MND) as a notifiable disease amid suspicions a cluster of diagnoses in the state could be linked to something in the environment.
Prof Dominic Rowe, a neurologist at Macquarie University, has treated 889 MND patients – many from the NSW irrigation town of Griffith – in the past decade.
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