Danger from pig brains.
Slaughterhouse workers who inhale pig-brain particles risk contracting a nerve-damaging illness. More than 20 people have been diagnosed with the mysterious disease, which causes nondescript pain, weakness, fatigue and possibly paralysis.
The first case appeared in 2004 at a Minnesota
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