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Source: TV report
Dr. T who consulted the first domestic case of novel flu in Kobe, a high school student, thought that maybe his patient had been infected with novel flu, judging from his symptoms and a sudden outbreak of ILI in his school. The other students had been diagnosed by other doctors as ordinary seasonal flu.
Dr. T, however, pleaded and persuaded Kobe medical lab to do PCR test on the student's specimen although it was not according to the government's guideline to do PCR test on anybody who did not have record of overseas travel.
Because the lab was very busy testing other specimens of suspected cases, the student's specimen was left behind for two days during which outbreak in the school further spread. But finally, to every government official's astonishment, the first domestic case of novel flu was confirmed with Dr. T?s patient.
The schools of the entire Kobe city were closed immediately and the outbreak was somehow contained. Many people now praise Dr. T?s judgement and thank him for finding the first case before the school outbreak going out of control. But he doesn?t want his name to be known.
After the first case was confirmed, Dr. T was, ironically, requested by the health care center of his area to close down his clinic for two days because he might be infected with the new virus and he saw the number of outpatients to his clinic drop by 30%. (Now the patients have come back.)
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Dr. T who consulted the first domestic case of novel flu in Kobe, a high school student, thought that maybe his patient had been infected with novel flu, judging from his symptoms and a sudden outbreak of ILI in his school. The other students had been diagnosed by other doctors as ordinary seasonal flu.
Dr. T, however, pleaded and persuaded Kobe medical lab to do PCR test on the student's specimen although it was not according to the government's guideline to do PCR test on anybody who did not have record of overseas travel.
Because the lab was very busy testing other specimens of suspected cases, the student's specimen was left behind for two days during which outbreak in the school further spread. But finally, to every government official's astonishment, the first domestic case of novel flu was confirmed with Dr. T?s patient.
The schools of the entire Kobe city were closed immediately and the outbreak was somehow contained. Many people now praise Dr. T?s judgement and thank him for finding the first case before the school outbreak going out of control. But he doesn?t want his name to be known.
After the first case was confirmed, Dr. T was, ironically, requested by the health care center of his area to close down his clinic for two days because he might be infected with the new virus and he saw the number of outpatients to his clinic drop by 30%. (Now the patients have come back.)
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