STREIT, Justice.
Pigs give us bacon and ham. They can also give meat packers brucellosis. Lee Burress contracted brucellosis while working at IBP, Inc.'s meat-packing plant. He did not discover he had the disease until six years after he left IBP's employment. Soon thereafter, he filed a petition for workers' compensation benefits. The deputy commissioner determined brucellosis was an injury, not an occupational disease. The commissioner affirmed. The district court...
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