Friday, April 30, 2010

People drink, beware ... On blue ear pig

29-4, Tran Quoc Quan - a store owner heart pigs blood pudding in Thanh Tri, Hanoi - has been discharged from hospital after 10 days treatment for bacterial meningitis caused by streptococcus swine.

The bleeding wound on the skin, the typical symptoms of shock caused by swine streptococcus infections - Photo: Ngoc Minh

Doctor Nguyen Hong Ha, Deputy Director of Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases - the treatment for his Army, the Army or the patient was lucky not having anything sequelae, while many patients with meningitis caused by streptococcus Common sequelae pigs horizontal welcome. Hospital patients have a shock, three cases of meningitis caused by streptococcus swine.

50% with meningitis

Also at the Tropical Disease Hospital, despite undergoing treatment for more than half months but Nguyen Van Thuong (in Pho Yen, Thai Nguyen) is still weak. His two feet thick tube purple black spots were peeling, revealing skin. According to his house and Commerce, about 20 days ago he bought his family's pigs to eat, in the process of minced meat in his hands scratched. About three days after Prime pigs eat, he usually high fever, drowsiness, skin patches known bleeding and bruising. After three days of treatment in the locality, he was transferred to the Tropical Disease Hospital.

Dr Hong Ha, the disease caused by swine streptococcus is a common pneumonia, septicemia, arthritis, endocarditis ... Streptococcus bacteria reside in the throat pig, as pigs having more diseases such as blue ear disease, streptococcus bacteria will spread that pigs infected with a disease "opportunity." People use pork undercooked green ear, eat pork blood pudding or pig cord blood or fluid into the scratches on the skin will become infected with streptococcus.

Dr Hong Ha, the two most common diseases caused by streptococcus bacteria that causes a shock (such as patients and Trade) and meningitis (such as military patients). Ha said that doctors had previously caused many causes of meningitis, but a recent shift to 50% of meningitis caused by streptococcus bacteria. How easy to distinguish disease caused by swine streptococcus with dengue fever (along with hemorrhagic manifestations in the skin) is the hemorrhagic fever with hemorrhagic spots on the skin appear tiny, but the disease is caused by streptococcus skin hemorrhage dense cloud, especially in the legs, back, chest ...

Disease may appear after 16 hours

Dr. Nguyen Trung level (Department of positive treatment Tropical Disease Hospital), patients may appear high fever, headache, drowsiness or vomiting after 16 hours of eating undercooked meat or infected infection through abrasions on skin scales. The later case can be infected three days after symptoms appear. People living in the area are blue ear pig, is the expression above should go to hospital to be diagnosed early and appropriate treatment.

Dr. Grant, many patients treated swine streptococcus infections in this hospital is the party, more ill after eating soup. "Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has banned blood pudding and then, but people still do and eat! By swine streptococcus disease prevention, dead pig is the best known cause should not bring destruction, do not eat meat killed. In the process of slaughtering, meat processing also need protection such as gloves "- he recommends Ha.

Dr. Ha, is about 4-5 years, which also appear in patients infected with streptococcus swine blue ear pig season, culminating in 2007 with the first 60-70 consecutive patients admitted to hospital. Ha said that the number of patients often depends on the pig epidemic evolution. There may be hope to reverse the disease if the consciousness of more people, such as not eating blood pudding.

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