Doctors and researchers are investigating the source

Doctors and researchers are investigating the source of a new disease caused by aerosolized pig brains.

Their working hypothesis is that the harvesting technique — known as “blowing brains” on the floor — produces aerosols of brain matter. Once inhaled, the material prompts the immune system to produce antibodies that attack the pig brain compounds, but apparently also attack the body’s own nerve tissue because it is so similar.

(via frontal cortex)

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