Investigators are closer to understanding a mysterious illness reported by pork plant workers in Minnesota and Indiana and now have pinned a name on it.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a report Thursday summarizing the investigation so far that gives the condition a name — progressive inflammatory neuropathy.
Minnesota officials said they were broadening their investigation to thousands of former employees at the Quality Pork Processors Inc. plant in Austin, going back a decade to when a powerful compressed air system was installed to remove brain tissue from pig heads.
Investigators have been trying to determine whether pig brain tissue, sprayed into the air as droplets during removal by the compressed air system, was inhaled by workers and made them sick…
Experts said the foreign pig tissue may have triggered the workers’ immune system, which then attacked their own neural tissue.
The bad news? Most of the workers possibly affected over the last ten years are immigrants – illegal and legal – and turnover is high.
They ain’t going to have much luck tracking folks down.
As Cartman from South Park would screech, while running away in absolute panic,
“Not Cool! Not Cool!”.
I’ve got a secure pork supply and buy direct from a black Muslim gentleman known as Mo’ Ham Ed.
The MN.officals are at least trying.This is truly scary shit.
That means no more pork sushi for me!
wtf
One of our local taverns recently got a good write up in a international food magazine for it’s pork brain sandwichs. They are delicious.
They should have tried harder to use the letter g for the start of the third word of the disease: (P)rogressive (I)nflammatory (G)neuropathy.