Dahe Newspaper Dahe client reporter Li Lan
Wang, 49, is a worker of a company in Zhengzhou and likes to grow vegetables in his spare time, but he did not expect that this "hard work" made him suffer from a strange disease.
Ten days ago, due to lower body pain, accompanied by frequent urinary urgency and fever, Wang Mou came to the Fifteenth People's Hospital of Zhengzhou City for treatment. After outpatient examination, the initial diagnosis was epididymitis of the testicles, and Wang was admitted to the urology department of the hospital. After professional treatment, Wang's symptoms quickly improved, but his body temperature has been intermittently high fever, and the highest peak has reached 39.6 ° C.
Zhu Haibin, a young physician, was very surprised by Wang's repeated fever, first excluding the new coronavirus pneumonia, and then excluding fever-prone diseases such as prostatitis, urinary tuberculosis, and rheumatic immune system. The cautious Dr. Zhu immediately reported Wang's condition to Zhang Wenpeng, the director of the department, who immediately organized professionals to discuss the case and arranged blood bacterial culture + drug susceptibility examination for the patient.
Blood bacterial culture usually produces results within 24 hours, but Wang's 72 hours have not moved. Lu Xiaojuan, the deputy chief technician of the careful inspection department, did not easily let go of this specimen, and after careful training and observation, on the fourth day, the machine finally called the police. According to the bacterial growth curve, it is very likely to be a rare Brucella. Further transsequation and microscopy, Wang Mou's blood has a greater possibility of Brucella.
Asking Wang Mou in detail again about his working environment and living habits, he learned that Wang had a vegetable field, and before the onset of the disease, he had pulled sheep manure to the farm as fertilizer and fertilized his vegetable field. The doctors immediately became vigilant, believing that Wang Mou was probably infected with Brucella and suffered from brucellosis during the contact with sheep dung. Subsequently, Wang was transferred to a higher-level professional hospital and was quickly diagnosed with Brucella infection.
At present, Wang Mou has gradually recovered after treatment.
What is "brucellosis"?
Zhang Wenpeng Director Xinmin introduced that brucellosis is a zoonotic infectious disease with sheep and cattle as the main source of infection, mainly in sheep, cattle and pigs, and brucellosis bacteria that exist in the fur and milk of sick animals will enter the human body through skin, respiratory tract, digestive tract and other channels, and contact with sick animals or eat the meat, milk and dairy products of these animals will also be infected. Herders, veterinarians, slaughterers, milkers and other people who need to be in constant contact with animals such as cattle and sheep have a high incidence, and Wang Mou's infection through contact with sheep excrement is very rare.
Director Zhang Wenpeng reminded that although brucellosis can be cured, arthritis, joint swelling and pain, infertility and inflammation of infection often "accompany" patients with chronic brucellosis for life. Therefore, for ordinary people, they should eat less half-cooked beef and mutton, reduce contact with livestock such as sheep and cattle as much as possible, do not drink raw milk, and separate raw and cooked when operating in the kitchen, so as not to be infected with the virus. (Information provided by Zhang Xinmin An Zhiwei)
Source: Dahe Client Editor: Du Silong