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 [...]

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 [...]