Beware of fresh food

At least 50 people have been hospitalized diagnosed with eating boiled snails at a restaurant in Beijing, according to sources from Xinhua News Agency. The cause may be due to parasitic worms in the snail.

Snail is a favorite dish in China (Photo: BBC) After conducting the snail tests, experts discovered a parasite called Angiostrongylus cantonensis, which is a parasite that can harm severe to the central nervous system when eating them. The manifestation of this symptom is headache, facial paralysis and can also threaten meningitis.

In the first hospitalization of a 34-year-old man, after eating a snail that was still alive at Shuguo Yanyi restaurant in Beijing, he felt a severe headache and nausea and also showed signs of paralysis .

This snail from the Amazon destroyed more than 160 thousand hectares of crops in the autonomous region of the Zhuang in Guangxi. Chinese health officials warn people not to eat fresh fish, crabs or snails.

While in China is posing an urgent problem to prevent this dangerous " way of eating ", in South Vietnam, fresh food is still popular. We should also be alert after receiving this information.

Angiostrongylus cantonensis parasite parasites on snails
(Photo: medscape.com)