After eating blood pudding, 50-year-old man died of streptococcus suis infection

After a year-end party with pig blood pudding, Mr. TVH (50 years old, in Giao Thuy, Nam Dinh ) felt body aches, diarrhea, high fever, chills, discomfort, and purple limbs.

A case of streptococcal infection in pigs

The Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases has just recorded 1 death due to streptococcus suis infection. The patient is Mr. TVH (50 years old, in Giao Thuy, Nam Dinh) with a history of good health. Three days before being admitted to the hospital, Mr. H. slaughtered a pig and prepared blood pudding for a New Year's Eve party with friends. A few days after the party, Mr. H. felt pain, diarrhea, high fever, chills, discomfort, and purple limbs, so he was taken to the emergency room at Giao Thuy District Hospital, then transferred to Nam Dinh General Hospital with a diagnosis of septic shock due to Streptococcus suis.

After that, the doctor prescribed antibiotics, vasopressors, endotracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation for patient H. and transferred him to the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases. At the Central Hospital for Tropical Diseases, despite intensive resuscitation by doctors, patient H. died of septic shock, multiple organ failure and severe blood clotting disorder.

Patients infected with streptococcus suis have a high risk of death.

According to doctors, 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 sick pigs. Streptococcus suis has 35 serotypes, of which type 2 is the most virulent and often causes disease in humans. People infected with Streptococcus suis can manifest in many different clinical forms, such as: purulent meningitis, sepsis, toxic shock syndrome with multiple organ failure... so the mortality rate due to Streptococcus suis infection is very high.

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Source: https://www.sggp.org.vn/sau-bua-tiet-canh-nguoi-dan-ong-50-tuoi-tu-vong-do-nhiem-lien-cau-lon-post724347.html