Eating New Year's Eve Blood pudding, one person died

On January 25, information from the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases reported that there was one death due to eating pig's blood pudding.

The patient is a 50-year-old male (in Giao Thuy, Nam Dinh), with a history of good health.

Three days before being admitted to the hospital, the patient had slaughtered a pig and prepared blood pudding for a New Year's Eve party with friends.

One day after the party, the patient felt body aches and pains, had two loose stools, high fever, chills, discomfort, and purple limbs.

Streptococcus suis infection caused a man to die (photo source: Central Tropical Hospital).

The patient's family took him to the district hospital for emergency care and then transferred him to Nam Dinh General Hospital.

Doctors diagnosed the patient with septic shock, suspected to be caused by Streptococcus suis, prescribed antibiotics, vasopressors, intubated and placed on a ventilator, and transferred him to the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

The hospital's Intensive Care Unit admitted the patient in a state of oxygen respiration, dilated pupils on both sides, undetectable femoral pulse, unmeasurable blood pressure, purple veins all over the body, and necrotic hemorrhagic rash on the face, hands and feet.

The patient was resuscitated and his heart started beating again. However, after intensive resuscitation, his condition did not improve and he died the same day.

According to Dr. Nguyen Quoc Phuong, Deputy Head of the General Planning Department, Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases, the male patient died of septic shock caused by streptococcus suis with multiple organ failure, metabolic acidosis - severe blood clotting disorder.

Streptococcus suis is a bacterium that naturally resides in the upper respiratory tract, especially the tonsils, nasal cavity, genital tract and digestive tract of healthy or diseased pigs.

The disease is transmitted to humans through contact with open wounds on the skin, eating raw food... When people are infected with streptococcus suis, it can manifest in many different clinical forms such as: purulent meningitis, septicemia, streptococcal toxic shock syndrome with multiple organ failure, endocarditis and arthritis...

“Currently, there is no vaccine to prevent Streptococcus suis disease in humans. Therefore, disease prevention mainly involves ensuring labor safety in livestock farming, food safety and hygiene, processing and eating cooked pig products, not eating blood pudding, sick or dead pigs...

Especially during Tet, people often eat "pig meat", make blood pudding... therefore, it is necessary to raise awareness about this dangerous disease", Dr. Nguyen Quoc Phuong warned.

Source: https://www.congluan.vn/an-tiet-canh-tat-nien-mot-nguoi-tu-vong-post282396.html