Be careful, Norovirus strikes!

Although the name sounds a bit bluff-Norovirus, it is actually a common virus, not a new type of virus. Within 48 hours after infection, patients will suffer from acute gastroenteritis symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea, especially vomiting symptoms. Winter is the season of high incidence of Norovirus outbreaks, also known as [winter vomiting disease]. Because Norovirus is very easy to contaminate food, it is the main pathogen causing diarrhea outbreaks. In the United States, it causes nearly 50% of food-borne diseases. The virus is highly infectious and needs to be cleaned with disinfectant. This is a highly infectious virus, which only needs 10-100 virus particles to cause disease. You know, one vomiting can expel hundreds of millions of virus Read More …

Can eating ice cream also cause food poisoning? Watch out for these 4 microorganisms

Recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Listeria monocytogenes was detected in the ice cream products of Blue Bell Company in the United States, which has caused 8 people to seek medical treatment due to infection and 3 people to die. The ice cream also entered the Chinese market last year and was sold in Shanghai, Sichuan, Heilongjiang and other places. Listeria, perhaps many people are still unfamiliar with this name. However, according to a report in the 2010 China Journal of Food Hygiene, the detection rate of Listeria in food safety monitoring in 13 provinces in China is 3.7%, with raw meat products having the highest detection rate. Food poisoning caused by microbial infection is Read More …