Streptococcus Suis Outbreaks
Streptococcus suis outbreak in China followed by exposure during slaughter of ill pigs
Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, August 8th, 2006
According to recent research published in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, "From mid-July to the end of August 2005, a total of 215 cases of human Streptococcus suis infections, 66 of which were laboratory confirmed, were reported in Sichuan, China.
"All infections occurred in backyard farmers who were directly exposed to infection during the slaughtering process of pigs that had died of unknown causes or been killed for food because they were ill."
"Sixty-one (28%) of the farmers had...
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