台茶室疑爆食物中毒2死2重症 他们都曾吃过这道菜
新闻报报看 | 台湾一家由大马人创办的素食餐厅，近日爆出大规模疑似食物中毒案件。不少民众前往用餐后，身体出现不适症状，甚至有2人引发急性肾衰歇后不治死亡。由于大部分患者都曾吃过炒粿条，有医生怀疑，致命“元凶”可能是米酵菌酸所致，只要1mg毒素可轻易致命，来源自保存不当的米制品如河粉。（主播：蔡心慧、林晓倩）
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00:00 Taiwan has a chain of vegetarian restaurants founded by the Tamarins,
00:05 and their signature dishes include a lot of Tamarins,
00:07 such as fried kway teow, satay skewers, and pork bone soup.
00:11 This well-known vegetarian restaurant is famous for its Tamarins,
00:15 but recently it has been exposed to a large-scale case of food poisoning.
00:20 After eating, many people began to show various symptoms of nausea,
00:23 including stomach discomfort, vomiting, diarrhea, weakness, and so on.
00:28 Some of them are so serious that they need to be admitted to a hospital's intensive care unit.
00:32 At present, at least five people have been diagnosed with health problems,
00:35 four people are in critical condition, and two people have died from the disease after the emergency.
00:39 The two victims are 39-year-old and 66-year-old men.
00:44 The first 39-year-old victim ordered a fried kway teow
00:47 at the restaurant last Friday.
00:50 After eating, he began to feel unwell and was urgently sent to the hospital two days later.
00:55 However, after 11 hours of emergency treatment,
00:58 he was declared inoperable due to acute kidney failure that afternoon.
01:02 The other 66-year-old victim also had diarrhea on the second day after eating fried kway teow.
01:08 After being sent to the hospital for treatment,
01:10 he did not expect to be in a state of acute kidney failure and could not even walk suddenly.
01:14 In the end, he was declared incurable due to acute kidney failure this morning.
01:19 Both of them had eaten fried kway teow and died of acute kidney failure,
01:24 but it is still not certain whether fried kway teow is the culprit.
01:29 The bodies of the two people will be sent to the autopsy tomorrow to be identified.
01:33 And not only these two victims,
01:35 but also other people who were poisoned mentioned that
01:37 they either ate fried kway teow or ordered fried rice noodles.
01:40 Doctors suspect that this may be related to the fried rice syndrome.
01:45 Dr. Li Jianzhang, the chief physician of the Emergency Department of the National Taiwan University Hospital, said,
01:49 "The so-called fried rice syndrome is when the cooked rice
01:53 is left to sit at room temperature for more than two hours,
01:55 and a special bacterium may develop,
01:58 which is called the "fairy-like rice syndrome."
02:00 Dr. Li said that the "fairy-like rice syndrome" is when the steamed buns are at high temperature.
02:03 Even if the steam is high, the steam will not kill the buns.
02:06 After eating into the stomach, the buns will produce toxins and cause symptoms.
02:11 He said that the "fairy-like rice syndrome" is the easiest to develop at room temperature.
02:16 Many restaurants will put the cooked kway teow in advance,
02:20 and stir-fry it when it needs to be cooked.
02:22 As Dr. Li said, this bacteria is not afraid of high temperature,
02:26 so it is possible to develop fried rice syndrome.
02:30 Dr. Bo said that this is just his personal deduction.
02:33 Is the large-scale poisoning incident
02:35 caused by the "fairy-like rice syndrome"?
02:38 It is not yet concluded.
02:41 But another doctor made another argument.
02:45 Yang Zhengchang, director of the Department of Toxicity and Drug Control, said,
02:48 "There are so many people who have died
02:51 from the "fairy-like rice syndrome"
02:53 which is very unusual.
02:55 Generally, the bacteria and viruses are not so serious."
02:57 He suspected that the fatal cause
02:59 may come from a toxin called "fairy-like rice syndrome".
03:03 This toxin is very toxic,
03:05 and only needs a small amount of 1mg to kill.
03:08 And the mortality rate is extremely high, more than 50%.
03:12 What's worse is that it has not yet been used as a special antidote
03:15 for "fairy-like rice syndrome".
03:18 Dr. Yang explained that "fairy-like rice syndrome"
03:21 comes from the constant storage of fermented rice and rice products,
03:24 such as powdered rice.
03:25 Note that if you soak black fungus in a bad environment for a long time,
03:29 it may also produce "fairy-like rice syndrome".
03:32 Even if the food is cooked, it may not be able to remove the toxin.
03:36 It is a highly toxic pollutant.
03:38 Once the food contaminated with "fairy-like rice syndrome" is eaten,
03:41 it will cause the end of the human cell respiration function,
03:45 which can cause the death of many organs in one day.
03:50 Here I want to emphasize that
03:52 it was just a personal deduction by the two doctors.
03:55 It is not yet clear where the food poisoning came from,
03:58 and needs to wait for the investigation by the Taiwan authorities.
04:00 At present, this restaurant has been asked to close temporarily
04:03 until the test results come out.
04:05 As for the founder of the restaurant,
04:07 he is also a Chinese-American, Li Fangxuan.
04:09 Today, he also went to the police station as a witness
04:12 to further clarify the relevant truth.
04:15 Since two people have died,
04:16 the lawyer pointed out that if the final confirmation is that the food was poisoned,
04:20 Li Fangxuan may face the penalty of "execution of the deceased"
04:24 and the damage compensation of the victim's family.
04:27 (Credits)