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Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy

Mar 31st, 2008 | By The Watchman | Category: World Watchman News

Calling it “Progressive inflammatory neuropathy”, the CDC issued a release concerning this new condition that many likened to HIV when it was first discovered. This was first discovered among workers at a Quality Pork Processors in Austin, MN.
The workers were affected when they apparently were at the ”head table”. This is located in the [...]

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Investigation of Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy

Mar 31st, 2008 | By The Watchman | Category: Press Releases

Investigation of Progressive Inflammatory Neuropathy Among Swine Slaughterhouse Workers — Minnesota, 2007—2008
On October 29, 2007, the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) was notified by a tertiary-care provider of unexplained neurologic illnesses among workers in a swine slaughterhouse (plant A) in southeast Minnesota. As a result, MDH initiated a detailed investigation at plant A to characterize [...]

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