The Tropical Disease Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City reported another patient contracted with the Streptococus Suis virus or ‘pig bacterium’ on May 16, raising the number of infected cases to 11 since the beginning of the year.
The patient N.T.B, 57, resides in Ninh Thuan Province and was hospitalized with high fever and organ disorder.
Doctors say the patient was infected with the Streptococus Suis virus, or commonly known as ‘pig bacterium’, because of eating pig-blood curd. Fortunately, the patient is showing signs of recovery.
According to health experts, people can contract the Streptococcus Suis bacterium through unhygienic or diseased pork.
Infected patients show symptoms of nausea, fever, vomiting and bleeding.
Doctors have warned people not to eat diseased pigs.
