Eat hot dogs susceptible to hepatitis E

According to the new data from the UK Food Microbiology Agency, one out of every 10 sausages contains the hepatitis E virus. Meanwhile, common processing methods cannot eliminate the dangerous virus. This insurance.

New research data in the UK show that up to 65,000 patients in the UK suffer from hepatitis E each year due to exposure to this virus through unhygienic pork and sausages. This disease can cause complications of the liver, even if it can cause pregnant women to die.

According to the leaders of the Advisory Committee, the Microbiological Food Safety Authority in the UK, most infected patients are men over 50. Based on the team's unofficial statement This function, the usual cooking methods are almost impossible to destroy the virus.

The UK Food Safety Agency is also asking for new testing measures to understand how the hepatitis E virus is transmitted. The virus is thought to be present in 85% of breeding pigs. The agency also asked to find food processing measures that could completely eliminate the hepatitis E virus.

With the above statement, after the types of bacteria such as campylobacter, norovirus, ESBL E.coli, salmonella and listeria, the hepatitis E virus has become the next dangerous disease from the farm environment to humans.

Over the past week, the British government's Medical Director, Mr. Dame Sally Davies, has also called for farms to stop using antibiotics on pets.

Executive Director Richard Young of SFT Sustainable Foods said that the outbreak was due to the over-concentration of the livestock farm environment: "This is another example of how natural breeding is causing diseases that are very serious to human health ".

Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is often considered to be a disease that belongs to developing countries due to its direct cause to clean water. Previously, cases of HEV infection in the UK were often caused by pets being moved from abroad.

However, the virus has now been found in most European countries, including the United Kingdom. The study of the British Food Safety Agency said: "There may be 65,000 cases of hepatitis E virus in the UK every year not detected". The study also suggested that 60% of these, equivalent to about 40,000 cases, were associated with foods like sausages.

A research team at the AMCSF Animal Health Agency in Weybridge, England, has conducted randomized tests at slaughterhouses, processing plants, two supermarkets and a pork shop. In slaughterhouses, 13% of fecal samples and 3% of pig liver specimens were detected with hepatitis E. The hands of 25% of workers working there were also found to have been infected with the virus.

More dangerous, 10% of UK street-based sausages test positive for HEV, suggesting that the virus has found its way into people's daily food. Since sausages are a popular food, 10% numbers will cause great concern.

The unofficial statement from ACMSF said: "The available information suggests that this virus may be able to withstand conventional cooking measures to a certain extent."

The statement also stated that the number of HEV infections in the UK (instead of moving abroad) has increased from 17 from 1996 to 2003 to 370 in 2012. This is just a small fraction. of the unrecognized cases.

The agency representing pig breeding and slaughter in the UK, BPEX said the discovery of this virus in pigs does not mean that HEV has successfully infected people from pigs to pigs. The agency said: "Cooking food is an effective risk mitigation measure."