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Irina Lipovets
Carried away
There is hysteria in the USA: a respectable family from New Mexico, having arrived in New York on vacation, brought with them the bubonic plague - both are in the hospital, the husband is in serious condition. "Black Death! - the local media scream. - She's back! Guard!" But then the doctors modestly objected: why would the plague return if it never disappeared? They say it's carried by rats - didn't you know? It turned out they didn't know.
We have our own reason for concern: intestinal infections are rampant in the south of Russia. At the Kropotkin Dairy Plant there is inspection after inspection, because its products, according to the official version, are considered the main source of infection. I saw with my own eyes during the holidays in a supermarket how customers doubtfully crowded near the milk aisles - you never know.
But I personally have a question: if the “milk” version appeared before November 7, when more than five hundred people were hospitalized, how did it happen that the rest got sick? Don't they watch TV? Don't listen to the radio? Or, spreading sour cream on a pancake, you thought: maybe it will blow through? By November 10, 1,661 people had been infected in the Southern Federal District, including 1,124 children under 15 years of age.
I’m not saying that all dairy products from now on should be questioned - God forbid! There are many other, much more realistic opportunities to suffer from intestinal infections - unwashed hands, for example.
Many sick people, and even workers of the ill-fated dairy plant, among whom there are also “victims,” do not agree with the official version: they believe that it is not milk and mayonnaise that is to blame, but raw water. The most amazing thing I’ve heard these days is what one of the victims said into the TV camera - just in support of the version of contaminated water. A quite decent-looking woman, lying on a hospital bed, honestly admitted: yes, we drank raw water! And that's why they got sick! And not at all from milk - the children cannot stand it, but they are also in the hospital.
Working on the “Be Healthy!” column, I always come across the same problem: how, when talking about hepatitis, dysentery, poisoning, etc., to avoid platitudes like “wash your hands before eating” or “don’t drink tap water.” Well, honestly, who else doesn’t understand? Apparently, someone is unclear.
This is the real Middle Ages. Viagra has already been invented, the genome has almost been deciphered, the sheep have been tilted, and we are still drinking raw water. With the rats, like a plague-ridden American family (he, by the way, is a lawyer, and she is a financial advisor!), we share living space. And we live, as we did three hundred years ago, according to our favorite saying: until the thunder strikes, a man will not cross himself. It thundered. Time will tell what exactly put one and a half thousand people in the south of Russia into hospital beds - water, food or something else. But I'm still not sure about the guy.
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