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Inhaling Pig Brains May Be Cause of New Illness

washingtonpost.com — Workers in a Minnesota slaughterhouse have developed a new disease that doctors suspect is caused by inhaling microscopic particles of pig brain. The worker's immune system attacks the particles, but then goes to work on the person's own nerve cells because they're so similar.

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  • pleeker, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2This is beyond disgusting...
  • bhartzer, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1that's totally gross. if you inhale chicken brains what would happen?
  • Bryan8818, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1lulz, one good reason to switch to eating a nice MLT. Where the mutton is lean and the tomato is ripe, plus nobody gets brain parasites"
  • cumbrowski, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1messed up

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