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[CIDP]

Mayo Clinic physicians hope to find a diagnosis for a mysterious
illness discovered at an Austin meat processing plant.

But their target might not exist in any medical text.

They've begun to realize the condition they're treating in at least 11
employees of Quality Pork Processing could instead end up classified
as a new illness.

On Friday, for the first time, they gave the unexplained neurological
symptoms a tentative new name: "Inflammatory peripheral neuropathy."
The moniker, which describes symptoms like numbness, tingling and
pain, isn't intended as permanent or even to suggest a classification
of the illnesses.

But a term must be found that's accurate because the state agency that
oversees wellness in the workplace, the Minnesota Department of
Health, as late as Thursday had continued calling the illnesses
Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, with a mix of
Guillain-Barre syndrome and undetermined sicknesses.

But the Mayo physicians say none of the Austin workers actually have
CIDP.

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What do they have?

[Imran Khan]

All the people at the Pork plant had CIDP.

These people had spinal involvement, weak legs , numbness which is all
commonly seen in CIDP. i think one had muscle involvement which is
seen also in CIDP.

This report does make one thing clear that CIDP is not so rare as
some thought and it is till being misdiagnosed.

Ron

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I.K