急談富士康

我開始擔心，富士康短期之內有多人跳樓死亡，並非因為單純抑鬱症，又或因為工廠的文化壓制得太緊要，而是廠內有傳染病爆發…

當然，抑鬱症仍然是引致自殺的最可能原因，以十萬人的工廠，有數千人患上抑鬱症，根本不足為奇。只是，短時間內同時自殺，就有點疑問。

一九八七年七月十一日，英倫醫學期刊(BRITISH MEDICAL JOURANL)，刊登了由來自倫敦WHITE PD 醫生以及LEWIS SW醫生的報告，有兩名青年人受傳染性單核白血球增多症(infectious mononucleosis)影響後，產生了抑鬱症以及自殺念頭。

傳染性單核白血球增多症可以由EBV等病毒導致，患者可能有傷風感冒的病況，亦會有淋巴漲大的情況，嚴重者會脾肝發大。由於不少人染病後數天便會自行痊癒，加上大部份人病徵輕微，很多人患上了也不自知。

一間工廠人流物集，再加上春夏之交，感冒而生，很多人染了病毒也不自知。本來，對普通人來說，患上了也無傷大雅。十萬人的工廠，過半曾經感冒也不出奇，但如果部份痊癒者因此發展成為妄想性抑鬱症(delusional depression)，那並非沒有可能。

當然，去支持post infectious mononucleosis delusional depression的文獻非常之少，甚至未曾有爆發的記載。我也希望沒有爆發的出現，惟有希望有識之士能夠找到原因和方法，拯救更多的生命。

參考文獻：
White PD, Lewis SW Delusional depression after infectious mononucleosis. BMJ 1987;295(6590):97-98

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1246972/?page=1

Wikipedia — Infectious mononucleosis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infectious_mononucleosis

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傳染性單核白血球增多症的病毒，加上公司本身冷漠管治，即使唔係人口中的軍訓式管治，人們得病自殺還是有可能的。

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亦有可能是因為盛傳「一命保全家」，以為只要自己死了就能得到一筆可觀的賠償。

生活不如意，工作不理想，活著比死更難受，還不如搏一舖，用命來換錢。

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陰謀論：更有可能的是根本不是員工想死，而是他們因為發現了一些公司不可告人的秘密，被自殺了

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Thanks doctor Fat for the infomation. Not sure if you read this article too:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20100525/tc_pcworld/nosimplesolutiontofoxconnsuicides_1

It says, “First, consider that the number of suicides is only perceived as high. The employee suicide rate at Foxconn is higher than ever this year at 10 out of an estimated 300,000 employees (says AP) or 420,000 employees (says the Times). That’s ***still lower than China’s annual suicide rate of 14 out of 100,000 people***, reported by the World Health Organization, and is on par with average statistics for people of university age in China, says the Telegraph.”

Besides, is there any source saying how closely do those workers who committed and attempted suicide work or live together that made the transmission of the potential disease possible? (Wikipedia says oral transmission is a cause)

Suicide is a complex behavior and there is no single cause for which it can be directly attributed. The media should try to look at the issue from different perspectives including your theory instead of blaming solely the company’s management for the suicides. Hope this kind of tragedy will not happen again.

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