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| Austin Pork Plant Worker Describes Sucking in Pig Brain Illness |
| 2008-03-31 |
| More than a dozen workers at the Quality Pork Processing plant in Austin came down with an unexplained illness. "A year ago I would have been walking with a walker," said Susan Kruse. Kruse still walks with a limp today, nearly two years after she began experiencing strange symptoms in November of 2006. "It started in my left leg then it went to my right leg. I had tingling in my finger tips and my body wanted to go but my body wouldn't let me," Kruse explained. After a series of medical tests, doctors were stumped by her condition. "They eventually did a nerve biopsy, EMG, and an MRI," she said. The pain became so debilitating, Kruse had to quit her job at the pork slaughterhouse where she had worked for 15 years. The mystery behind the illness began to unravel when more than a dozen other workers at Quality Pork Processing came down with similar symptoms. There was great confusion at first because of the huge number if illegals working at the plant. The CDC was looking into a southern border sickness or two. Ten years ago, something happened in Austin. The meat packing plants began transporting illegal aliens from Texas to work in the plants around Austin After studying other patients, health officials determined the illness was progressive inflammatory neuropathy. Doctors said the strange sickness was caused from inhaling the fine mist of pig brains. Feel free to make your own "brains on the job" jokes |
| Posted by:Icerigger |
| #2 "It started in my left leg then it went to my right leg. I had tingling in my finger tips and my body wanted to go but my body wouldn't let me," said Chris Matthews |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-03-31 09:49 |
| #1 "It started in my left leg then it went to my right leg. I had tingling in my finger tips and my body wanted to go but my body wouldn't let me," Sounds like a few cases of statin-induced myopathy and neuropathy that I'm familiar with. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-03-31 09:43 |