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Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An influenza epidemic is spreading in Japan, doubling the number of cases per hospital, according to data compiled through Tuesday by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
Re: Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
Flu Infections Surging in Japan
Tokyo, Jan. 29 (Jiji Press)--Japan has started to see a surge in flu infections this winter, data from the National Institute of Infectious Diseases have shown.
According to the NIID's survey on some 5,000 medical institutions across the nation, the number of flu patients per institution in the week to Jan. 22 jumped to 22.73 from the prior week's 7.33.
The number of flu-stricken patients reached about 1.11 million in the week ending last Friday, an increase of about 400,000 from the previous week, according to figures compiled by the health ministry.
Re: Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
Flu epidemic peaking in Japan
Japan's health officials say the influenza epidemic has peaked. In some areas, more people had flu than at any time in the past 10 years.
Friday, February 03, 2012 21:03 +0900 (JST) http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/20120203_35.html
Flu hits 'alarm level' for 1st time this winter
Influenza reached the "alarm level" for the first time this season after an estimated 1.73 million flu cases were reported last week, an increase of more than 50 percent from the previous week, the health ministry said Friday.
Tokyo, Feb. 3 (Jiji Press)--The number of people with influenza viruses in Japan was estimated at 1.73 million in the week through Sunday, up 620,000 from a week before, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Friday.
70s woman dies of influenza A on 6 Feb in group home, Aomori prefecture
cough and fever on 5 Feb, her temperature was above 38 degrees
diagnosis: influenza A
vaccine: vaccinated on Nov 2011
no chronic disease, no mass infection in group home
mainichi news http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/eng...p=JAEN&wb_dis=
Re: Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
If Google Flu trends is any indication then the epidemic may not have yet peaked. Google thinks that the infection rate is now the highest since it started tracking in 2003.
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Must be stressed again that this is only Google's estimate based on search traffic but Google does tend to predict the general direction at least a week in advance of official stats in most cases. Google's rate of increase seems to be slowing though so perhaps if not at peak then near to it.
70s woman dies of influenza A on 6 Feb in group home, Aomori prefecture
cough and fever on 5 Feb, her temperature was above 38 degrees
diagnosis: influenza A
vaccine: vaccinated on Nov 2011
no chronic disease, no mass infection in group home
mainichi news http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/eng...p=JAEN&wb_dis=
Re: Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
Flu Infections Continue Rising in Japan
Tokyo, Feb. 10 (Jiji Press)--The number of people with influenza in Japan came to an estimated 2.11 million in the week to Sunday, up by 380,000 from a week before, topping the peak of 1.89 million marked during the H1N1 flu epidemic in 2009, the National Institute of Infectious Diseases said Friday.
Face masks are being seen everywhere in Japan at the peak of flu season, as the number of patients is increasing at the fastest pace in 10 years.
A boy receives a flu examination in a pediatric clinic in Tokyo’s Adachi Ward on Feb. 9. (Taku Hosokawa) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_...AJ201202110005
70s woman dies of influenza A on 6 Feb in group home, Aomori prefecture
cough and fever on 5 Feb, her temperature was above 38 degrees
diagnosis: influenza A
vaccine: vaccinated in Nov 2011
no chronic disease, no mass infection in group home
mainichi news http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/eng...p=JAEN&wb_dis=
Re: Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
In the 2011/12 season, isolation/detection of AH3 continues from week 36 of 2011 and largely increased from week 2 of 2012. Isolations/detections of B/Yamagata lineage and B/Victoria lineage were first reported in week 39 and week 40 of 2011, respectively, and slightly increased from week 2 of 2012. In addtion, isolations/detections of AH1pdm09 were sporadically reported in weeks 41-42 and 51-52 of 2011 and weeks 1 and 3 of 2012
From week 36 of 2011 to week 8 of 2012, isolations/detections of AH1pdm09 from 6 cases in 5 of 47 prefectures, AH3 from 2,628 cases in 45 prefectures, B/Victoria lineage from 190 cases in 30 prefectures, B/Yamagata lineage from 108 cases in 27 prefectures and B/lineage not determined from 96 cases in 19 prefectures were reported
70s woman dies of influenza A on 6 Feb in group home, Aomori prefecture
cough and fever on 5 Feb, her temperature was above 38 degrees
diagnosis: influenza A
vaccine: vaccinated in Nov 2011
no chronic disease, no mass infection in group home
mainichi news http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/eng...p=JAEN&wb_dis=
Re: Japan - Flu spreading in Japan, doubling number of cases per hospital
Antiviral resistance surveillance in Japan
[Background and objective]
Japan is the world's biggest consumer of four neuraminidase inhibitors, oseltamivir, peramivir, zanamivir and laninamivir, for chemotherapy against influenza and has a high potential to emerge the inhibitor-resistant influenza viruses. Consequently, sustained monitoring of the neuraminidase inhibitor-resistant viruses and sharing surveillance data are important for public health measures and therapeutic strategy at clinical hospitals.
To monitor neuraminidase inhibitor-resistant influenza viruses, we tested A(H1N1)pdm09, A(H3N2) and B viruses by a combination of phenotypic and genotypic assays. In the phenotypic assay, approximately 5-10% of total isolates were randomly selected and subjected to neuraminidase inhibition assays against oseltamivir, peramivir, zanamivir and laninamivir. In the genotypic assay, allele-specific TaqMan RT-PCR and/or partial sequencing of neuraminidase gene were performed to detect antiviral resistance mutations.
70s woman dies of influenza A on 6 Feb in group home, Aomori prefecture
cough and fever on 5 Feb, her temperature was above 38 degrees
diagnosis: influenza A
vaccine: vaccinated in Nov 2011
no chronic disease, no mass infection in group home
mainichi news http://www.excite-webtl.jp/world/eng...p=JAEN&wb_dis=
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