Deaths have increased Streptococcus

Updated at: 8:17 AM, 10/09/2010
Number of deaths and patients infected with swine Streptococcus recent increase "dizziness." The reason for slaughter or eat sick pigs, not hygiene.
Enter Doctor Vu Minh, Faculty of active treatment, Tropical Central Hospital, said early this year there were nearly 20 concerned patients hospitalized for an emergency situation, in danger of meningitis , severe sepsis, blood pressure dropped, the money shock, coma, limb gangrene smells ...

Many deaths

According to statistics from the Hue Central Hospital, in August alone in 12 cases broke swine streptococcus infections admitted to hospital (both in 2009 while only less than 10 recorded cases). Especially, there were 10 deaths out of 34 cases hospitalized since early April to present.

Tropical Disease Hospital in Central, is also infected five patients being treated swine streptococcus. All patients were male and hospitalization in a critical condition.




Patients T. still comatose a week after treatment. Photo Wall Spirit.

Van T. Dinh patients, 28 (Duy Tien, Tam Duong, Vinh Phuc) hospitalization was 7 days is still in deep coma, limb swelling, necrosis. The patient who said, patients do not eat blood pudding is eating pork but by the self-slaughter. After eating, he T. abdominal pain, diarrhea, high fever, imported tropical disease hospital in central deep coma, rapid pulse, blood pressure of 0, breathing squeeze ball, hepatomegaly, skin much the bleeding, gangrene. Dialysis patients were constantly in danger but still plays.

Dinh Van K. Patients (Ly Nhan, Ha Nam) by eating infected swine streptococcus swine hearts on buying from the market. There have been over a month despite treatment with three dialysis filter results, but still breathing machine, vaguely spiritual, full body peeling by deep black necrotic spots ...

Dr. Fill, most patients are required mechanical ventilation and continuous hemodialysis with filtration results (can not be filtered as usual) by septicemia, severe shock, multiple organs failure ... Medical expenses for treatment up to a hundred million, but many patients still do not pull through. In particular, patients infected with Streptococcus meningitis may, after leaving the hospital still heavy sequelae.

Detection and early treatment

Intermediate Nguyen MSc, Faculty of active treatment, Hospital for Tropical Diseases Central Committee, said the streptococcus bacteria that normally reside year-round situation in some pigs throat without causing disease. But when the blue ear pig virus, the immune health decline that streptococcus bacteria thrive, causing pneumonia, blood infections for pigs. When the pigs slaughtered this disease, or to destroy incorrectly, or when the meat before cooking, because not many people even know swine should still eat more fresh produce such as farming, pig heart , nem paste ..., then the body will absorb a large amount of streptococcus bacteria that live pigs. Especially on the background of patients such as diabetes, liver failure, alcoholism ... then the more likely situation Streptococcus disease.

MSc level warning, danger from exposure, disease eating pork, time-onset disease is very fast. Moreover, even had pigs infected with streptococcus bacteria, patients can still get completely back later. Because the disease is the same as normal streptococcus infections, leaving no lasting immunity to the body.

Thus, the MSc level, after eating pork, if symptoms appear such as abdominal pain, nausea, go liquid, high fever ... must be taken to emergency patients. By this stage of disease risk, greatly affecting their lives without intervention.

It is worth saying, the expression of disease susceptible Streptococcus mistakenly diagnosed with other diseases such as septicemia, hemorrhagic fever, meningitis latex ....


Health experts warned people not to be feared that a boycott pork disease which affects the economic and health. Because pork is very good food. Things to do is not purchase, slaughter pig disease. Pathogenic viruses are easily destroyed at high temperatures, use of processed meat