It appears that Japan is being invaded by a great virus which seriously affects the stomach. Besides this, the flu that are caught here in winter seems to be that they are quite large, so in a few days go to the hospital to get the shot for me not to take any of these diseases.

The full story of the gastrointestinal virus can read in peopledaily , I will put the news here a little summary:

Japan, known as "land health" is being hit by a new wave of infections of a gastrointestinal virus, Norovirus. The Japanese Health Ministry issued a statement on 16 urgent making known to the national 45 districts have been infected except Okinawa in the south and Qinsen in the north. [...]

This is the more serious infection since 1981 when Japan proceeded to investigate cases of epidemic diseases. The national epidemic of Japan warned on 16 that, as expected, the infected in the country could add ten million. [...]

The Japanese authorities discovered the severity of Norovirus earlier this month. Four people from 72-100 years of the same nursing home were infected and died on. Later, the Institute of Epidemic Diseases received information that more than 3,000 pediatric hospitals had similar cases for a week and 570 clinics had treated 20 patients of gastrointestinal inflammation on average.

This type of virus usually found in shellfish and other marine products, so that the Japanese authorities have called the Nipponese, who like to eat things raw, so they burn less molluscs and fish, and have advised hotels and restaurants Properly dealing with vomiting and do well disinfection, to prevent a wide spread of infection.

Be Sociable, Share!