The National Hospital for Tropical Diseases has reported two cases contracted with a bacterium called Streptococcus suis.
MA. Nguyen Hong Ha, deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases said that of the two patients, one was from Ha Nam and was in a serious condition and receiving artificial respiration while the other patient was from Hanoi and was showing signs of improving.
According to health experts, people can contract the bacterium Streptococcus suis through eating unsafe pork or diseased pork.
Infected patients experience nausea, fever, vomiting and bleeding.
Doctors warn people not to eat diseased pigs.
In related news, the Health Preventive Department confirmed one more death of A/H1N1, bringing the total number to 12 in the country since the beginning of the year.
The latest victim was a 56-year-old man from My Tho City from the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang.
The man was admitted to the provincial General Hospital on April 27. He tested positive for the deadly A/H1N1 virus. Later, he was moved to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City where he died on May 5.
