How long before this is an episode of House? Workers in a slaughterhouse in MN 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. [Washington Post via Kottke]

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