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01-06-2007, 05:43 PM
japantoday The outbreak of a new strain of influenza appears to be imminent with the approach of the flu season, and doctors are advising Japanese, especially company employees and others in the workplace, to be more vigilant against the disease.
"There is a prediction that if a new strain breaks out now, slightly fewer than 40 million people in Japan will be infected and 1 million people will die," said Seizaburo Kashiwagi, a flu expert and director of the Fukuoka Prefectural Red Cross Blood Center.
Avian flu breaks out almost annually, and there are reports of human infection with the disease. Antiflu drugs are considered to be effective to some extent, but causing fear is the rapid spread of viruses carried by air travelers.
At Narita airport, near Tokyo, about 20,000 people arrive in Japan from abroad every day on average, and "transit isolators" — movable stretchers hermetically sealed with transparent vinyl sheets — are placed in the health consultation room next to the quarantine booth.
If a patient of a new strain of flu is found, the person will be carried on one of the stretchers to the Red Cross Hospital in Narita city, a medical facility designated to treat patients with infectious diseases.
Learn more of the report here... (http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/395313)
"There is a prediction that if a new strain breaks out now, slightly fewer than 40 million people in Japan will be infected and 1 million people will die," said Seizaburo Kashiwagi, a flu expert and director of the Fukuoka Prefectural Red Cross Blood Center.
Avian flu breaks out almost annually, and there are reports of human infection with the disease. Antiflu drugs are considered to be effective to some extent, but causing fear is the rapid spread of viruses carried by air travelers.
At Narita airport, near Tokyo, about 20,000 people arrive in Japan from abroad every day on average, and "transit isolators" — movable stretchers hermetically sealed with transparent vinyl sheets — are placed in the health consultation room next to the quarantine booth.
If a patient of a new strain of flu is found, the person will be carried on one of the stretchers to the Red Cross Hospital in Narita city, a medical facility designated to treat patients with infectious diseases.
Learn more of the report here... (http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/395313)