Essentials Of Human Disease 2nd Edition by Leonard Crowley

Exercise 1

John Reynolds is a 34-year-old employee of a pork processing plant, where he was exposed to aerosolized pig brain tissue. Later he developed progressive inflammatory neuropathy, a neurologic disease. He was told that the condition may have resulted from an occupational exposure to pig brain tissue, but he doesn't understand how such an exposure could cause his problems. What would you tell him?