5 foods with potential risk of swine flu infection

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Do you think that the daily foods you and your family are eating are likely to be contaminated with tapeworm larvae? To prevent and prevent swine flu, the best way is to remove the following dishes from your daily menu.
Porkworm disease caused by the larvae of the tapeworm Taenia solium. When larval cysts infect humans, it will cause unpredictable consequences, in cases where larval cysts infect the human brain, it will cause seizures.
In order to best prevent infection with tapeworms, besides making sure to eat cooked and drink hot, you also need to eliminate 5 potential favorite foods with many potential risks of swine flu infection.

1. Blood soup, pork heart

Blood pudding is considered a favorite dish of many men, this dish uses the blood of animals such as pigs, chickens, ducks... mixed with cooled boiled water and the filling is chopped from the meat itself. that animal, wait for winter and finally eat it raw.
The essence of animal blood soup is raw blood that is processed with some skin and meat additives... Cannot kill bacteria and parasites. Especially, pig blood soup is one of the most popular dishes and this is also the dish with the highest risk of infection with pig larvae.

2. Spring rolls

Nem chua is also one of the top 5 favorite dishes with a high risk of infection.
The essence of spring rolls is made with raw ingredients and cooked by fermentation alone. Therefore, this is a dish that is very susceptible to infection. Due to the production place, unsafe food sources combined with the fermentation process of spring rolls in a bad environment will produce mold and harmful bacteria contained in spring rolls.

3. Raw vegetables

Adult flukes live in the human intestine, then lay eggs and appear in human feces. If the environment is not clean, the eggs will infect water/vegetables. The eggs then infect the body and develop into a fluke. Therefore, you need to limit eating raw vegetables, if you do, you need to soak in salt water and wash with clean water.
In addition, flukes also appear in many aquatic vegetables such as: watercress, celery, spinach, water spinach, lotus root... Vegetables, most of which grow in the water, so they carrying larvae, when these larvae are infected, they will produce flukes.

4. Raw oysters

Raw oysters are also one of the favorite dishes of men. However, eating raw, unprocessed oysters carries a very high risk of developing tapeworm larvae. Not only raw oysters, but undercooked shrimp, squid, and snail dishes can also be infected with parasites, when the larvae enter the body, they will "hatched" into worms.

5. Rare beef

Rare beef or rare dishes, dip is the main reason for the fluke to enter the human body. When you eat rare beef, you can get infected with tapeworms, liver flukes... These parasites, when entering the human body, will cause gastrointestinal diseases, affecting the intestines and liver. and several other organs in the body.

Therefore, we should limit eating undercooked foods and should apply the principle of "eating cooked and drinking boiling".
Currently, most provinces and cities are in the middle of the "storm center" of swine flu, so we need to strictly follow the principles of food hygiene and safety, "eat cooked and drink hot" and clean. clean body.
According to the Department of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health. Normally, tapeworm larvae will die when cooked at 75 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes or boiled for 2 minutes. Therefore, in order to prevent larva disease, in addition to limiting eating the above dishes, you need to strictly follow the hygiene and safety of cooked and boiled food, do not eat raw foods of unknown origin.

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