New research warns that eating a baby can cause meningitis
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Last Update: 2020-12-19
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Source: Internet
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Author: User
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some folk side claims that raw eating can cure disease, but Chinese researchers warned on the 30th, raw eating can not cure the disease, but may cause meningitis.
researchers reported two related cases on
: a 78-year-old woman and her 46-year-old son, who had been treated for meningitis symptoms such as headaches and had served wild crickets before became ill.
and blood tests showed that the two were infected with Guangzhou tube round worm, a zoonotic parasite that causes meningitis. The good news is that both men have recovered from the drug treatment.
, one of the authors of the paper and a doctor at The Pearl River Hospital of Southern Medical University, said raw food is not common, but two patients believe that raw eating is health-care.
Guangzhou tube round nematodes are usually the intermediate host of mufficles such as Fushou screw, causing disease by invading the central nervous system of the human body, which has not previously been found in the moths.
To learn more about the guangzhou tube round worm, the researchers purchased 20 slugs from the farmers' market where the patient had previously purchased the moths, and found that the larvae of the Guangzhou tube round worm were detected in 7 of them. (Source: Xinhua News Agency Zhou Zhou)
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