Until now, Tropical Disease Hospital Central has received 14 cases of swine streptococcus. April alone there are seven cases. There is not a disease epidemic, but people need preventive vigilance.
A patient infected swine streptococcus BVTU treatment in Hue.
According to therapist 2 Nguyen Thi Minh Ha, Head of General infections, Tropical Disease Hospital Central: swine streptococcus infections are spread from animals to humans, but does not spread from person to person. Normally, the pigs are all children of this streptococcus in the throat and upper respiratory tract. When the infected pigs, especially the blue ear disease, immune system decline, streptococcus swine will have the opportunity to attack individuals.People exposed to sick pigs from swine streptococcus will be transmitted through skin wounds, eye mucosa, air.
If the patient is not treated promptly, can cause septicemia, meningitis, arthritis, pneumonia, leaving the heavy sequelae such as deafness. Severe cases, blood infections that patients not treated promptly, can shock and fatal infections.
Those who are in blue ear epidemic areas will have high risk of swine streptococcus. Besides, contact with dead pigs, swine meat which scratched arms and legs, eat food from pigs that are not cooked, will also risk infection streptococcus swine. So even when a high fever, nausea, headache, and especially with the hemorrhagic form of ..., to the right of patients to medical facilities for treatment in time.
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