Can pigs get encephalitis? Can pork with encephalitis be eaten?

According to Xinhua News Agency, Beijing 1 month 17, "No pork for the time being. At present, some pork has purulent encephalitis virus, and hospitals in Beijing have just finished the meeting. " Shortly after the beginning of the new year, such a short message was widely circulated in Beijing. 13, the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau publicly clarified that there was no epidemic caused by eating pork in Beijing, and the content of the text message was untrue.

Today, with the increasingly developed means of communication, how can a piece of false information spread quickly, thus affecting the local social psychology? Xinhua News Agency reporters conducted a follow-up.

SMS rumors have noses and eyes.

/kloc-on the evening of 0/3, the reporter received similar information from three or four friends. The contents of these messages are basically the same, but there are still subtle differences after careful comparison. The key is the last sentence "All hospitals in Beijing have just finished the meeting". Later, a short message said: "12, all hospitals in Beijing held an emergency meeting." Plus the specific time and state, it seems that there is a nose and eyes.

At the end of another short message, another sentence was added: "This is the internal news of the Ministry of Health." It seems to be more "authoritative" and poses a more severe challenge to the audience's judgment.

Obviously, it is difficult to trace the source of the text message. The reporter traced back five or six links along several clues, and the result was nothing more than mutual forwarding between friends and friends of friends. During the tracking process, the reporter found that the earliest news was this: "In the previous stage, there were a number of dead pigs in Tongzhou, Beijing. Cause of death unknown, whereabouts unknown. Therefore, in the recent stage, we should eat less pork dishes outside and buy less cooked food such as sausages and ham. If we cook and buy meat ourselves, we must go to a regular shopping mall. "

The health department continues to send text messages.

In fact, before the reporter received these short messages, Zhao Chunhui, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau, had come forward to refute the rumor, and these friends of the reporter did not hear the news of the government's rumor when they sent short messages. Peer-to-peer communication of mobile phones is easier to reach ordinary audiences than the authoritative release of traditional media, which shows the convenient advantages of "the fifth media".

He Xiong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, also refuted the "news of sick pork", saying that there is no medical data showing that eating pork can cause people to be infected with encephalitis.

Sun Xianze 17, director of the Food Safety Coordination Department of the State Food and Drug Administration of the United States, said that the health department had expressed its position on this incident and thought that the content of the short message did not conform to the objective facts, and we respected their opinions. Other than that, there is nothing to say.

Police: I didn't trace the "news of sick pork"

16, some media reported that the Beijing police said that sending a text message about "sick pork" could be sentenced to a maximum of five years. A person in charge of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency that the Beijing police did not make such a statement, but it was clearly stipulated in the current legal provisions. The Beijing police did not specifically investigate this "news about sick pork" incident, because the news was only a goodwill reminder between relatives and friends of the citizens, and there was no obvious evidence that someone deliberately made a rumor.

The media reported that sick and dead pork appeared in Beijing.

However, official and expert rumors have not completely calmed people's anxiety. /kloc-in an interview with reporters on 0/6, Mr. Gao, a salesman specializing in pork in a supermarket near Beijing Jiaokou, said that he could sell two or three hundred kilograms of pork in the past day, but now he can't sell it in three days: "I sell all healthy pigs raised in regular farms, and customers don't believe it!"

15, a message on the internet suggested that although Beijing denied the message, it did not explain whether there was a swine fever epidemic in the suburbs of Beijing. Some consumers said that although the pork virus has not been found to infect people, this does not prove that no pork carries the virus.

On the same day, CCTV's "Focus Interview" column was exposed, and illegal traders in some villages in Handan Town, Xinle City, Hebei Province sold the dead pork to Shijiazhuang and Beijing at low prices after processing. According to Zhao Yan Metropolis Daily, around New Year's Day, Cangzhou, Hebei Province seized a large number of dead pigs from Tianjin for eight consecutive times, reaching 29 tons.

Agricultural sector: There is no such virus in China.

According to the relevant division of labor, the management function of livestock feeding stage is in the agricultural sector. Liu Yaqing, deputy director of Beijing Agriculture Bureau, said that pigs can be infected with Japanese encephalitis, but the disease is only transmitted by mosquito bites and is an insect-borne disease. Seasonal occurrence is concentrated in July, August and September, and there is no transmission condition in winter. "Porcine purulent encephalitis" does not exist in Beijing at all, and this rumor has no scientific basis.

Liu Yaqing said that in order to ensure the safety of animal products in the market, veterinary departments at all levels are implementing strict supervision. She is sure that there are no dead pigs in the surrounding areas in Beijing.

Li Jinxiang, deputy director of the Veterinary Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, said that the "purulent encephalitis virus" mentioned in false short messages did not exist not only in Beijing but also in the whole country.

Hospital: There was no emergency meeting to prevent encephalitis.

Have all hospitals in Beijing held an emergency meeting on encephalitis prevention and control? The reporter privately asked the medical staff of several large general hospitals in Beijing, and the answers were: "I have never heard of it."

The reporter noted that according to the announcement of the Ministry of Health 10, in 20061February, there were 20 cases of epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis and 4 cases of death 12. The number of cases increased by 336.96%, and the number of deaths increased 10. The Ministry of Health requires all localities to strengthen monitoring and effectively implement various prevention and control measures.

The situation gradually became clear: the rumors of swine fever and the news of high incidence of encephalitis appeared almost at the same time, and it was said by word of mouth that the two unrelated things overlapped.

SMS supervision is a new problem.

After tracking this matter and looking for so many authoritative departments, the reporter still didn't get the complete information of "sick pork SMS". With the increasing popularity of mobile phones, information spreads faster and faster between people, and a short message sometimes causes local social unrest.

Facing the new situation, how to carry out effective information supervision without infringing citizens' legitimate rights and interests and maintaining social stability has become a new topic for government departments at all levels.

Xinhua News Agency reporters Keyong Li, Song Zhenyuan, Wang,,.

Sms rumors can be sentenced to more than 5 years.

If the evidence is sufficient, the SMS rumor maker will be punished according to the seriousness of the case. If serious consequences are caused, the maximum penalty is more than five years in prison. According to the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Several Issues Concerning the Specific Application of Laws in Handling Criminal Cases of Prevention and Control of Disasters such as Sudden Infectious Diseases, "fabricating terrorist information related to disasters such as sudden infectious diseases, or spreading it knowing that it is terrorist information, seriously disrupting social order, shall be convicted and punished for fabricating and deliberately spreading false terrorist information." According to the Beijing Morning Post.