Eat "favorite" pig blood pudding, 16 people were infected with swine Streptococcus and 2 deaths due to late admission.
This situation took place in the central tropical disease hospital in two weeks.
Pig blood pudding is a cause of disease
The patients were hospitalized in serious condition, such as purulent meningitis, abscess, sepsis, gangrene of the limbs. Many people with low blood pressure, cyanosis, if not timely rescue multiple organ failure, easily lead to death.
Cause of hospitalization late disease easily misdiagnosed with other diseases with the same expression. Lower health facilities do not have enough ability to diagnose and detect swine Streptococcus.
Nguyen Hong Ha, Deputy Director of the Central Tropical Disease Hospital, said the reason 2 weeks over (coincides stays Tet) of patients infected with swine Streptococcus surge by occasion of Tet (Tet ), people tend to use products such as pig heart, blood pudding is much higher than usual.
Necrotic spots appear on the patient's skin and then spread rapidly
Ha said, if streptococcal questions, about 12 hours after eating the signs of fever, then the appearance of the necrosis, spread, nausea, headache. Disease progresses rapidly and to more severe sequelae.
Despite repeated warnings, but the habit of eating pig blood pudding of people still have not changed.
Mr. Nguyen Nhat Cam, Deputy Director of the Center for Preventive Medicine in Hanoi, said current swine streptococcus is not spread from person to person but just spread from animals to humans, but this transmission at greater risk by transmitted disease can eat, food processing hygiene.
According to Cam, swine streptococcus caused on the city does not appear, only sporadic cases. However, this is concern that existing latent disease in the community due to the inherent habits like eating pudding, fresh pig hearts of the people. http://tintuc.timnhanh.com/xa-hoi/20130221/35ACF51C/Hai-nguoi-chet-vi-an-tiet-canh-lon.htm
