Vietnam: Eat more soup regardless of disease

Speaking of Da Nang.....[previous post] By the way...it's 15 provinces, not 5.

18/05/2010
As of mid-May, in five provinces and cities of our country has detected acute diarrhea patients and pigs infected with streptococcus. The risk of this disease outbreak on a large scale is huge, but people's awareness of food hygiene is not high.

Not see patients, to eat!

Eat more soup at risk of cholera, streptococcus swine ... However, despite the recommendations of the functional continuity of risk from food hygiene, people still subjective, overlooked.

At the point of sale more soup, pork heart of every brand in Danang [Da Nang Province], every morning is always full of diners. The pig blood pudding cups are the owner prepared to serve the food cold. Quang Anh - Factory workers automobile tires, said a week I eat two to three times more soup. Occasionally, severe abdominal finished eating and he saw signs of loose stools should have to go buy a new oral influenza. "I also read newspapers daily, but serious disease in the tissues rather Danang where you see" - just spoon feed information into the cup, he has distributed to Quang ceiling.
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Hovering ... pathogens

Although not matched patients described in Da Nang, but the diarrhea cases were receiving treatment at hospitals in the city in recent years largely due to infections from food sources is warned in time of cholera, Streptococcus disease is spread from pigs in many provinces and cities nationwide.

Persons infected swine streptococcus appeared in the time of outbreak of blue ear epidemic is caused by blue ear pig disease resistance has been reduced, creating opportunities for attack streptococcus bacteria, cause disease in pigs and transmitted to people. Be quite severe sepsis and patients after about 2-3 days after exposure, or eating raw or undercooked pork cooked like blood pudding, sour nem, nem pan. For the local people is weak, the evolution of the disease to very fast. The treatment for patients infected with streptococcus swine is not difficult to detect cases and hospitalized early, so when the above symptoms, the patient needs immediate medical establishment to avoid the risk of serious complications and even death.

Long, the people of Vietnam have a habit of eating more soup. It is said that, eat more soup tasty and cool, complementary, is a food "nation." But actually, eating blood pudding is a good habit not scientific and reflect, by the blood of animals are infected germs and impurities during processing.

As reported by the Department of Preventive Medicine (Ministry of Health), from early 2007 until now, there are 42 people infected by the kind of swine Streptococcus serotype 2, in which two people can die in 2 patients meningitis and septicemia. These cases belong in the area of high pig density, or both by eating more pig farming, slaughter, eat dead pigs. This is a warning to those who still see more like a soup dish pleasure Me Especially now.