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April 2008
- Pork Workers Contract New Nerve Disease
  
  newser | Reuters | Apr 17, 08 2:48 PM CDT
  
  Pork-plant workers in three states have contracted an unheard-of neurological disorder linked to removing pigs’ brains, Reuters reports. Some 24 people—most from Minnesota—are experiencing symptoms including inflamed spinal cords, weakness, fatigue, and numbness and tingling in the limbs. “As far as we are aware it is a brand new disorder,” said a doctor following the Minnesota patients. More »
  
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  health • meat • pork • neurological disorder • nerves
January 2008
- 'Rewired' Nerves Restore Ability to Walk
  
  newser | Scientific American | Jan 7, 08 1:40 PM CST
  
  Scientists have figured out how mice that lose the ability to walk after a spinal-cord injury can regain it, a finding that could someday help human patients, Scientific American reports. When the long nerves that run from the brain to the base of the spine were severed, shorter nerves in the area were repurposed—not regrown, as was previously believed. More »
  
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  science • medical breakthrough • spine • paralyze • nerves • paralysis • spinal cord

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