Recently, the Emergency Department of the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases has just received 52 -year -old male patients (V.T) in Thanh Hoa with a diagnosis: Blood infection with shock due to pig streptococcus, pneumonia/monitoring cirrhosis.

Through exploitation of a history, about 12 days ago, Mr. T. had a pig processor.After a day the patient appears high fever, floating bleeding on the skin.

Being taken to a medical facility near the house and transferred to the provincial general hospital in the situation: high fever,Conscious disorders, hypotension.Mr. T. was placed intubation for mechanical ventilation, dialysis.Despite the positive resuscitation in a week, the situation does not improve, progresses multiple viscera and severe coagulation disorders.The result of the hematuria is streptococcus suis.

Mr. T was transferred to the Central Tropical Diseases Hospital in the condition of: mechanical ventilation, maintenance of high -dose vascular drugs, many bleeding on the skin, gastrointestinal bleeding, anuria.Mr. T. continues to maintain mechanical ventilation, continuous dialysis, blood products and appropriate antibiotics.

MSc Phan Van Manh - Department of Emergency said that pig streptococcal disease may be seen in any healthy object, research shows that it may be more common on alcoholic patients.Patients with immunodeficiency, many background diseases, and high age, the disease is worse.

Dr. Manh also added that common pig streptococcal disease will cause two main diseases: blood infection and meningitis.This patient has been poked with cerebrospinal fluid and eliminating meningitis.However, in this patient, the condition of blood infections progresses very quickly and has severe consequences such as blood clotting disorders, prolonged multiple viscera.

Through this, Dr. Manh also recommends: Our country is agricultural, so the breeding and slaughter of pigs is not limited.Therefore, in the process of contacting pigs, people should pay special attention to wearing gloves and masks.Pig -streptococcal bacteria in the respiratory tract of pigs, so nothing can be removed from that bacteria, but only the way is to prevent it - to avoid limiting infection on humans.

“Pig streptococcal disease currently has no vaccine to prevent and cooked boiling and drinking very important.Absolutely do not eat dead pigs, sick pigs;Do not eat unspecified pig preparations, especially pig blood pudding ”, Dr. Manh emphasized.