MINNESOTA: Inhaling pig brains may be cause of new illness - (Washington Post)
February 3, 2008 – 6:56 pmFittingly, the first person to detect a faint signal in all the noise was, according to this story, the interpreter.
The story says that the 33-year-old woman who worked for eight years working with Spanish-speaking patients at a medical clinic in southern Minnesota noticed something familiar as she translated the story of a young meatpacker last September.
Earlier last summer, she had heard a version of it from two other workers at the same slaughterhouse, and had told it to their doctors, who were different from her current patient’s. When the consultation was over, she pointed this out.
The interpreter’s insight set in motion a story, still unfolding, in which a new disease has surfaced in 12 people among the 1,300 employees at the factory run by Quality Pork Processors about 100 miles south of Minneapolis.
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