根据世界卫生组织的有关报道,近年来一种与电冰箱密切相关的耶尔赞氏菌肠炎的发病率有上升趋势,而患者在病前几乎都进食过冷藏食品。最近美国的科研人员已从冰箱冷藏的食品中以及患者的粪便中分离培养出耶尔赞氏菌。医学上把这种观代文明病称为“电冰箱肠炎”。 According to the World Health Organization, the incidence of Yersinia enterocolitis, which is closely related to refrigerators, has been on the rise in recent years, and patients almost always had frozen food prior to their illness. Recently, researchers in the United States have isolated and cultured Yersinia from food stored in refrigerators and in the excrement of patients. Medical view of this concept of civilized disease as “refrigerator enteritis.”