New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt wants the Public Health Agency of Canada to help investigate a mysterious brain illness that has touched hundreds of people in her province and appears to be making people sick in neighbouring Nova Scotia.

An oversight committee appointed by Progressive Conservative Blaine Higgs’ former government rejected the idea that the cases are linked. It indicated that most of the patients in the cluster were misdiagnosed. But after meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Wednesday, New Brunswick’s new Liberal premier said federal government scientists will get involved.