A disease named“xiaoqi ( bamboo basket rice washer) drum” has taken lives of at least 9 people in the past 20 years in a Chinese village. The latest tragedy happened in 14 , Apr, 2010. when 30 years old Zhang Xiaoming left his wife and aged mum.
From the description of 26 years old wife of Zhang, as early as Jan this year, her husband felt uncomfortable in his abdomen. Through medical examination, his liver was found problem.
In Feb, he moved to a major hospital in the city, the shocking diagnosis is liver cancer, and later stage.
The wife said, during those days he husband had black and purple facial complexion
fever everyday, while he's losing weight, his abdomen become swollen, as if a hideous xiaoqi(bamboo rice washer) under his cloth, just like woman of 6 month pregnancy.
The other young man named Zhang Ming died of the same disease in last Jun, and apart from his father, he's the third one in his family died of it. A third death also happened last year. All share similar symptoms.
Local income of the village from silk product, pig raising, and rice (Oryza) plant, economically above average of the province. Yet villagers are puzzled about the reason of the “xiaoqi drum”.
There's such story among villagers like Huang Shuer : at the time of their ancestor, there came a strange bird, one aged said randomly ' I'm afraid there would be weird things happening”, since then, the ghost of disease has haunted villagers. Many people believe that it's kind of voodoo. And they even invited some wizard to expel the ghost.
One month after the local health department receive report, they have found the real criminal – family liver cancer history and Hepatitis virus.
The environment locally is pleasing, rich soil , fresh air. The living habit of the villagers are healthy , no alcoholics. There's no enterprise of pollution around. Every family uses underground water, and the source of water from a cave. Collecting the sample ,water is found of standard quality,after microbiological examination and cultivation. There's no source of pollution around fountain, neither have the villagers over-stored or molded food.
The investigation team has proven that the dead have family history of Hepatitis, after analysis of family blood samples. Hepatitis causes liver cancer can not be excluded. So to decrease the ratio of Hepatitis is important measure to reduce chance of liver cancer, and vaccination is one important joint.
Experts have reached the initial conclusion : death of villagers are caused by Hepatitis virus. Health department has increased education to the villages, demanding good hygiene habit , hand-wash before and after meals, excremental pollution elimination , and rejection to alcohol .
The causes of Hepatitis varies, the most common is virus, besides, deficiency of personal immunisation system and alcohol consumption may both cause Hepatitis.
My fourth suggestion here is: prevent earlier and discover earlier for treatment as liver disease may not have obvious symptoms from beginning. So please do not take any advices without result from physical examination, you may be misled and delayed important time for treatment !!
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