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Sunday, August 30, 2009

豚インフルエンザ Swine flu

最近、日本で豚インフルエンザは新しいインフルエンザと言う。でも西洋でまだ略式で「Swine Flu」豚インフルエンザと言う。

日本で、豚インフルエンザが遅く上がっていった。二週間前11,636新しい病人がなった。でも、また報道によれば先週は日本で、急に15万新病人がなったらしい。先週、また学校を始めた。。。

二月前に英国の施政は最悪の場合の桁を出版した。同様に日本の厚生は流行伝染のピーク時に毎日760,000病人までなれる。

Recently in Japan, people are calling swine flu the new flu. But in Western countries it's still informally known as swine flu.

In Japan, swine flu was slowly rising. Two weeks ago, the number of new cases stood at 11,636. But, also according to the news, this week, the number of new cases rocketed to 150,000 in one week. Last week the schools went back...

In much the same way as the UK government published a worst case scenario figure a couple of months back, the Japanese health ministry have published a figure that up to 760,000 people in Japan could become infected daily at the peak of the epidemic expected in late September, early October.

So far I don't know anyone who has had it, but I feel it's only a matter of time... I shall continue my obsessive hand-washing after every lesson and every time I'm near a sink and disinfecting my hands so many times a day!

A vaccination isn't expected to be available until after the epidemic peaks in the first wavel...


https://hasseidoko.mhlw.go.jp/Hasseidoko/Levelmap/flu/index.html
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/150000-patients-estimated-to-have-contracted-flu-this-week
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200908290090.html
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200908280041.html

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