Mysterious Workplace Illness

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I recently came across an article regarding a mysterious illness affecting some workers in plants where they are processing pork: Workers in pig slaughterhouses in both Indiana and Minnesota are being afflicted with an illness called progressive inflammatory neuropathy — symptoms range minor weakness and numbness to full-on paralysis. And as if a mysterious neurological disorder popping up in a food processing plants weren't disturbing enough, what the Centers for Disease Control has identified as the suspected cause of the disease is equally unnerving. Read on if you dare (and don't say I didn't warn you!). It seems the workers who are affected work with the head of the pigs performing a process that uses an air compressor which blows the brains out of the head resulting in dispersal of some of the material around the workers. As a result, it is noted that the plants have discontinued the process. One of the reasons the article gave for the situation not being made so public is due to the fact that all of the victims of this mystery illness are undocumented workers who cannot realistically raise the alarm. I think this is terrible. What are your feelings on this situation?