Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Vietnam: 2 More Cases of Streptococcus @ Tropical Dis. Hospital

2010-05-05 12:33:00

Consecutive matched patients infected with Streptococcus

Institute for Tropical Diseases Central Committee, said the hospital has to receive further treatment and two patients have been identified Streptococcus, a disease transmitted from pigs to humans.

Two patients were men, one in Ba Vi district (Hanoi) and one in Quang Ninh. Both cases have been identified in Streptococcus possible meningitis. They know that eating pork but do not know pigs are not infected. According to epidemiological investigation, the area of living patients are pigs but not defined have died from infected swine blue ear or not.

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So, just in a week, the hospital must have been continuously treated for 6 Streptococcus infections. Diseases caused by Streptococcus suis Streptococcus caused, appeared a few years ago in Vietnam, but recently they have not.

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