Be wary of the surge of "Norovirus" in Mid-Autumn BBQ! Observe five principles to avoid diarrhea. The Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue has become an essential holiday activity for China people every year. These two weeks, there is no shortage of barbecue incense. However, the cumulative number of diarrhea patients exceeded 65438+100000 only last week, and it is estimated that there will be more this week. Remind everyone that you must pay attention to hygiene during the Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue and avoid spending continuous holidays in diarrhea. Most people in Taiwan Province get together to enjoy the moon every Mid-Autumn Festival. However, the continuous Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is coming, and the domestic diarrhea epidemic is also heating up. Remind everyone that whether it is an adult party or playing with children, we must pay attention to food safety and hand hygiene to prevent norovirus from coming to our door.

Last week, there were more than 65438+100000 emergency cases of diarrhea. It is estimated that the number of diarrhea patients this week will be more than in previous years, and it will increase around the Mid-Autumn Festival. According to the monitoring data of the Department of Disease Control of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, last week (September 20 to September 26), the number of emergency diarrhea visits in China was113,361,which has shown an upward trend in recent weeks. In the past four weeks (weeks 36 to 39), 58 cases of diarrhea were reported. Zhuang, deputy director of CDC, said that the notification of diarrhea aggregation was slightly higher than that of 20 18 ~ 20 19, which may be related to negligence in preparing food. Among them, 24 cases were positive, mostly in restaurants, hotels and campus gathering places, and 19 cases were mainly norovirus.

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Mid-autumn barbecue is most afraid of raw materials being stale and unfamiliar. According to the CDC, every year, China people spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with friends and relatives through barbecues. If the raw materials are not fresh, they are not stored at low temperature for a long time, or the central temperature exceeds 70℃ before they are cooked thoroughly, it is easy to cause intestinal infectious diseases such as diarrhea.

Eating eggs that are not fully heated may have the risk of salmonella infection; In addition, because shellfish have the characteristics of concentrated pathogenic substances in water, if shellfish produced in polluted waters are eaten raw, it is easy to be infected with many pathogens, such as norovirus, Vibrio enteritis, Vibrio cholerae and so on. , causing diarrhea, of which Norovirus has a high transmission power and is easy to cause large-scale infection in densely populated areas.

The main symptoms of gastroenteritis are watery diarrhea and vomiting, and may also have symptoms such as fever, stomachache and nausea. Usually the symptoms last for 1 to 10 days. The patient's age, personal health status, infected pathogens and the amount of contaminated food consumed will all affect the symptoms and their severity. People with particularly weak resistance (such as pregnant women, children and the elderly) will have more serious symptoms.

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The Mid-Autumn Festival barbecue follows five principles, and the disease control department appeals that people should pay attention to the following four principles when celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, regardless of dinner or barbecue:

1. Avoid eating and drinking raw food. Avoid eating ingredients that are not fully heated, and ensure that the food is really cooked, especially shellfish and aquatic products should be thoroughly cooked before eating.

2. Pay attention to food preservation and ensure fresh ingredients. It is recommended to take out a part at a time and put the rest in the cold storage. Please cook it as soon as possible after taking it out.

3. Separate raw and cooked food. Baked food can no longer be put together with raw food. It should be put in another clean bowl to avoid infection.

4. Pay attention to hand hygiene. Wash your hands often with soap before preparing ingredients, barbecuing, eating and going to the toilet. Don't grab food directly and put it on the baking net.

Don't touch the ingredients if you have symptoms, and rest at home. The disease control department reminded that hotel staff should strengthen environmental sanitation management. Employees with symptoms should stop handling food and go to work at least 48 hours after the symptoms are relieved to ensure the health of other employees and customers. If people have suspected symptoms, they should avoid contact with ingredients, seek medical treatment and rest at home as soon as possible, and pay attention to supplementing water, electrolytes and nutrition. If you need to go out, you should wear a mask and do a good job of hand hygiene to avoid infecting others.