US: New details presented in outbreak in pork processing plant workers - (American Academy of Neurology)
April 18, 2008 – 8:52 pmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080416174618.htm
New details on the neurological illness that has affected workers at several pork processing plants were presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Chicago, April 16, 2008.
Neurologists have identified the illness as a new disorder which causes symptoms ranging from a transverse myelitis syndrome, inflammation of the spinal cord, in one patient to mild weakness, fatigue, numbness and tingling in arms and legs. Researchers are classifying this condition as an immune polyradiculoneuropathy, (a disease of the peripheral nerves and spinal nerve roots) and it has been referred to as “progressive inflammatory neuropathy.” Details about the initial epidemiology investigation were described in an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report on February 8.
The current presentation focuses on the clinical description of patients who worked at a Minnesota pork processing plant. Other cases associated with working at a pork processing plant have been reported in Indiana […]
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