Chapter 1648 High-Risk Groups

The name Vibrio vulnificus sounds very unfamiliar, and the shop assistants present and a few old customers who followed up to watch the excitement were not even sure which four words it was.

If Zhang Zian said that animals are poisonous, even if it was said that the fish that scratched Zhao Welder's palm yesterday seemed harmless but was actually poisonous due to genetic mutation, Zhao Welder and Wu Diangong would definitely believe it, but bacteria...it sounds like It's too mysterious.

In everyone's understanding, tetanus is the most likely to be infected after an injury. What the hell is this Vibrio vulnificus?

Zhang Zian knew that if he didn't explain clearly, it would probably be impossible for this stubborn welder Zhao to go to the hospital obediently, so he patiently explained the ins and outs of Vibrio vulnificus.

There are about 90 kinds of Vibrio, most of which are not directly harmful to the human body, so Zhang Zian only knows this type of Vibrio, after all, this type of Vibrio is closely related to marine life.

Vibrio vulnificus was singled out as a brand-new pathogen in 1976, and people have gradually paid attention to it since then.

This kind of vibrio can only survive in seawater, and is salt-loving and high-temperature-loving. Generally, when the temperature is higher than 30 degrees Celsius, the temperature of the seawater will also be higher than 20 degrees Celsius. Infection occurs in temperate summer, or most of the year in tropical and subtropical regions.

As long as the temperature is suitable, Vibrio vulnificus is widely distributed in the sea. Whether you eat undercooked seafood or a damaged wound comes into contact with seawater, you may be infected with Vibrio vulnificus. Some developed countries have already indicated relevant information on seafood labels. warn.

Having said that, healthy people have enough resistance to be less susceptible to Vibrio vulnificus infection, and the high-risk group is men with chronic liver disease who live by the sea.

That's right, due to the protection of estrogen in the body, young women are rarely infected with Vibrio vulnificus. It can only be said that young ladies are treated preferentially everywhere, and even bacteria are lenient to young ladies...

However, when women get older and the estrogen levels in their bodies drop, the infection rate will be close to that of men.

The reason why it is emphasized is that people living by the sea face greater danger, because only people living by the sea have the opportunity to eat fresh seafood just out of the water, and only in this way can they have the chance to be infected with Vibrio vulnificus by food, especially In the process of handling seafood, such as when scraping the scales and removing the internal organs, when you hurt your hands... On the contrary, people living in the mainland, because the seafood they eat are all frozen, there is no possibility of Vibrio vulnificus infection from food.

It is a well-known common sense that no matter how salty seawater is, once it freezes, it will desalinate and become freshwater. Vibrio vulnificus, which loves high temperature and is salt-loving, is wrapped in ice and soon freezes to death.

It can only be said that while people living by the sea enjoy the most delicious and natural taste of seafood, they also face the possibility of being infected by this terrible bacteria.

As Wu Electrician complained, how many elderly retirees are completely healthy? There are more or less chronic diseases, and young people are basically in a sub-healthy state.

Welder Zhao likes to drink. Zhang Zian didn't see his physical examination report, but it is expected that he has a certain degree of alcoholic liver disease, which is more common among middle-aged and elderly men who have retired from factories.

Middle-aged and elderly men with unhealthy livers determine that Welder Zhao belongs to the group most likely to be infected with Vibrio vulnificus.

The frightening thing about Vibrio vulnificus is that the onset is fast. Counting from the beginning of infection, it may be fatal within 48 hours. Since the number of cases is relatively small, the fatality rate is generally estimated to be above 40%. If the treatment is not timely, even if you save your life, It is also likely to have to be amputated; the second is that this bacterium is too little understood by humans, and humans are not even sure about its pathogenic mechanism, and this bacterium is not even mentioned in medical schools.

Because little is known about Vibrio vulnificus, infected people are often as indifferent as Zhao Welder after the onset of the disease, and miss the best time for treatment. Even if they go to the hospital for treatment, the doctor may adopt the wrong treatment plan due to ignorance of the disease ,

It can even be asserted that the reason why the cases of this disease are rare is not because there are really so few infected people, but because some of the infected people have died without knowing why.

To be fair, the high fatality rate of Vibrio vulnificus does not mean that it is so badass. Some bacteria on land are worse than it, but humans are animals that live on land, and the immune system has almost no orientation to the bacteria in the sea. Immunity, unlike influenza, comes in different patterns almost every year, because if the influenza virus does not mutate in different patterns, the human immune system may not be afraid of influenza long ago.

This is like the cat’s first transfusion of dog blood. The cat’s immune system is ignorant of the dog’s blood cells, so there is no rejection reaction, but in fact, the characteristics of the dog’s blood cells have been quietly marked. The army is under pressure.

In summer, everyone likes to go to the beach to play in the water, cool off the heat, and feast their eyes. When having fun, they always forget the horror of the sea. There are all kinds of dangers hidden in the sea, not only sharks and jellyfish on the surface. In the frenzy of the reef, even the inhabitants of the microscopic world invisible to the naked eye are always preparing to invade the human body.

Zhang Zian briefly talked about the horrors of Vibrio vulnificus, which made even the carefree Welder Zhao wilt, and his face turned pale. They usually laughed at themselves for stepping half a foot into the coffin, but when they really faced When death is in danger, who doesn't cherish his own life?

"Old Zhao! What are you still doing sitting here? Go to the hospital!" Electrician Wu was the first to react, grabbed Zhao Welder's arm and pulled it away, "Xiao Zhang, I will find someone to do the rest of the work later, you don't have to Tube……"

"wait!"

Zhang Zian ran back to the second floor again, took out a few pills from the medicine cabinet and handed them to Welder Zhao, "Take some medicine to deal with it, and go to the emergency department when you arrive at the hospital, saying that you are infected with Vibrio vulnificus and must be treated immediately. The attitude can be tougher, otherwise some medical staff may be neglected because they don't understand this bacteria."

Welder Zhao was in a state of confusion at this time, and took the medicine with mineral water without thinking about it, and without even asking, he took out his mobile phone in a panic, "I...I want to call my wife..."

"Oh! Usually you are in a hurry, but when it comes to this time, you will be a mother-in-law!" Wu Electrician snatched the phone resentfully, "Go to the hospital first! Let's go!"

Electrician Wu pulled and dragged Welder Zhao out of the shop like a dead dog, waved to stop a taxi, and went straight to the nearest hospital.

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