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Sad again! People of Nan in 5 districts buy pork carp and eat raw. 12 cases of ear infections, 1 death, 2 severe symptoms

Nan – A parable of eating raw pork..The people of Nan in 5 districts buy pork from a carriage that they patrol to sell to make a dish of raw pork. Eat with ear infection. 12 hospitalized, 1 dead, 2 in ICU


Today (6 Sept. 20) Dr. Pongthep Wongwatcharapaiboon The deputy director of Nan Hospital said that now Nan province has found the most severe outbreak of pork ear infection in five years in five districts, namely Phu Piang District, 5 cases, Mueang Nan District, 4 cases, Tha Wang Pha 1 case. , 1 Na Noi and 1 Mae Charim, including 12 male patients, including an 86-year-old old man with a neural tube infection. and in the bloodstream, stiff neck, unable to hear, one death and two critically ill requiring ventilators

from the disease investigation Villagers buy pigs from street vendors patrolling the village and cook them for a raw laab dish, which contains the germ Streptococcus suis, a bacteria that lives in the glands. Pig tonsils cause infection. All patients will have high fever, chills, severe headache. and if the patient has a congenital disease or is a regular drinker May result in infection into the nerve membrane, causing a stiff neck, hearing loss, if the infection enters the bloodstream, the blood pressure will drop. shock to death

However, the ear off disease often spreads during the rainy season every year. Therefore, we would like to remind people to buy pork from reliable sources. from a standardized slaughterhouse and refrain from eating raw, cooked food for safety

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