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Re: Aso calls for calm response as new flu infections reach 3149 in Japan
Re: Aso calls for calm response as new flu infections reach 3149 in Japan
Update of Novel Flu in Japan
July 17, 2009
The high school baseball championship is one of the biggest and most popular sports events in Japan. (Similar to the college football in USA) More than 4000 schools participate in local tournaments by prefecture to win 49 seats in the final national championship tournament.
Due to novel flu outbreaks in high schools, people are forced to find solutions to many problems: some schools had to decline to participate in the opening ceremony of local tournaments (but not games) and had to stop sending cheering squads to their team?s games; organizers had to take measures to prevent infections among players and also had to change game schedules to allow teams of schools closed for novel flu to play.
There are concerns over the final national championship tournament to be held from August 8 for 2 weeks in Koshien baseball stadium in Hyogo prefecture, one of the most infected prefecures in Japan adjacent to Osaka where big outbreaks are about to explode. Tens of thousands of people, mainly high school students, will gather from all over Japan, possibly spreading novel flu to every corner of Japan unless appropriate measures are taken by the Japanese high school baseball federation.
The following table and charts are as of 11:00am July 17, 2009.
MOH?s data has not been updated for July 17.
UPDATED

Source: Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare

Note: Due to differences in cutting time, daily numbers and daily accumulated numbers may be different from other reports.
Source: Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
http://idsc.nih.go.jp/disease/swine_influenza/2009map/090717map.html

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SN1987A
Re: Aso calls for calm response as new flu infections reach 3149 in Japan
Update of Novel Flu in Japan
July 17, 2009
The high school baseball championship is one of the biggest and most popular sports events in Japan. (Similar to the college football in USA) More than 4000 schools participate in local tournaments by prefecture to win 49 seats in the final national championship tournament.
Due to novel flu outbreaks in high schools, people are forced to find solutions to many problems: some schools had to decline to participate in the opening ceremony of local tournaments (but not games) and had to stop sending cheering squads to their team?s games; organizers had to take measures to prevent infections among players and also had to change game schedules to allow teams of schools closed for novel flu to play.
There are concerns over the final national championship tournament to be held from August 8 for 2 weeks in Koshien baseball stadium in Hyogo prefecture, one of the most infected prefecures in Japan adjacent to Osaka where big outbreaks are about to explode. Tens of thousands of people, mainly high school students, will gather from all over Japan, possibly spreading novel flu to every corner of Japan unless appropriate measures are taken by the Japanese high school baseball federation.
The following table and charts are as of 11:00am July 17, 2009.
MOH?s data has not been updated for July 17.
UPDATED
Source: Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare
Note: Due to differences in cutting time, daily numbers and daily accumulated numbers may be different from other reports.
Source: Infectious Disease Surveillance Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases
http://idsc.nih.go.jp/disease/swine_influenza/2009map/090717map.html
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SN1987A