North: Appeared people infected swine streptococcus

No. 95 Labor Day 29/04/2010 Updated: 8:30 AM, 29/04/2010


(Labor) - On 04/28, Dr. Nguyen Van Kinh - Director of the tropical diseases hospital nations - said the hospital is receiving scattered patients to examination swine Streptococcus.
These cases are currently in the local epidemic ear diseases such as Hanoi, Hai Duong, Hai Phong, Hung Yen ...

We have four patients were treated, of which 2 have severe cases are ventilator. Epidemiological investigations showed that previous cases of pigs infected with streptococcus bacteria are exposed to infected pigs, swine meat, use less processed food carefully ...

It is known that when bacteria streptococcus swine attack humans will cause high fever, congestion occurs on the skin plate, encephalitis, pneumonia, liver failure, multiple organs failure, even death if not early treatment. Thus, patients infected with streptococcus bacteria is common in the possible meningitis and septicemia or can combine both diseases.

Blue ear pig virus is not spread directly to humans, but it will be localized in the respiratory tract of pigs, when a chance, especially when blue ear, they will grow and cause disease. People eating or contact with infected pigs will become infected.

According to Dr. Glass: The infected bacteria are very difficult to diagnose in the early manifestations of the disease is quite similar to the symptoms of common fever. So, after eating pork or pigs exposed to, if you see symptoms of high fever, headache, vomiting a lot, sore throat, the patient was admitted immediately to be tested and treated.