Caution with hamster specialty

For a long time, rat meat is considered a specialty of Vietnam. However, this dish still has potential to cause disease if not processed properly.

In the ripe rice season and the big water season, it is easy to catch many people carrying tools such as hoes, shovels, nets, sticks together to run on the fields to hunt mice.

For a long time, rat meat is considered a specialty of many countries in the world, including Vietnam. However, in the medical literature, this rodent's meat always contains many pathogens that can be lethal and special. This is a dangerous infectious disease , progressive acute, spread with high mortality rates, classified as subject to quarantine and international reports. So you need to be careful when using this type of meat.

Picture 1 of Caution with hamster specialty
Mouse meat is considered a specialty of many countries in the world, including Vietnam.

The mouse, especially in urine, kidneys as well as other organs always contain dangerous diseases such as plague, paratyphoid, coccidiosis, tuberculosis .

Re-processing and eating meat are easily infected. In addition, the habitat of rats has recently been heavily polluted. Mice can be hit, contaminated with chemicals.

With hamsters, the risk of infection with pesticides is high. Rat eaters easily accumulate toxins to the body, causing the risk of dangerous diseases such as liver, kidney and cancer diseases.

In the program Delicious and healthy (VTC14), Th.S.BS Ho Duy Thuong, Nghi Xuan General Hospital, Ha Tinh, said: "Rat meat contains a lot of protein like beef, chicken but need to distinguish clearly hamsters and rats before eating. Rats often live in dirty schools, infected with many bacteria and viruses that can affect human health. "

Experts also recommend that any kind of animal meat can cause disease if not prepared. Dr. Thuong shared that when processing rat meat, remove the head, tail, intestines and legs, only eat the meat, cook well.