Friday, January 30, 2009

Japan: Flu, more than last year's peak "A Soviet-type" 50 percent

2009.1.27

The nationwide increase in patients infected with the flu this winter, up to 18 days in a medical institution was confirmed a few weeks, the patient人TONARI 20.84 per location, the peak of 17.62 last season than the one to 27, according to the National Research Institute of Infectious Diseases.

The shares have been found high rates of drug resistance drug resistance "A Soviet type" and is rapidly spreading, the virus was detected 12 months later revealed that 53.2% of the total. Call infection is "to settle this, we need to look at carefully," he said.

According to the call of infection, the scale of the epidemic season is not yet clear, the peak level from the end of year two would be in early April. Last season the number of patients in the last 10 years at least.

12 in each type of virus has been detected since, A Soviet Union-the largest ever A-Hong Kong (36.2 percent). 10.6% type B have been found. Call infection in "A reason for the Soviet Union has increased from an unknown type, A type and the Soviet Union A mixed epidemic was likely to Hong Kong," he said.

Last flu pandemic arrived in the early part of the Kyushu and Okinawa earlier this year that has spread throughout the country and Shikoku.

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