New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

[Commonground]

rough translation....

Mainichi Shimbun October 23, 2009 13:32


National Institute of Infectious Diseases December 23, 5000 about
the number of national reports submitted from hospitals of patients
with influenza places, 12 to 18 days in a week announced climbed
to 17.65 per facility. Most are believed to pandemic influenza, last
week was the highest since the summer started a new trend (5 to
11) of 12.92 was updated.
Estimated number of patients is about 83 million, an increase from
approximately 64 million people last week.
By prefecture, Hokkaido has become the largest in 57.93, well
above the peak of the epidemic of last winter. The Aichi 31.78 more
in 20 prefectures including Tokyo and Osaka are also beyond 7.
Institute of Infectious Diseases is a "metropolitan and Akita are
becoming full-fledged epidemic in Okinawa" and that. Kenji Shimizu

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http://mainichi.jp/select/wadai/news/20091023k0000e040076000c.html&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&usg=ALkJrhjJelJV275_Ig_6B3N60LxZWIjSVw

[tropical]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

Hello Common.,

I'm incline to interpreting this machine traslation number as an machine "temporal glitch", in a sense that the sentence are all an estimated probability/statistical estimation which they compute last week to be aspected 64 milion at all, but now they re-computed the estimations to be aspected at all (in a future) 83 milions.

#1: "Estimated number of patients is about 83 million, an increase from approximately 64 million people last week."


Am I correct ...

[Commonground]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

I just spent a good 45 minutes reading various articles on the 10th & 11 tami resistant cases...and the increase in flu, in Japan.
I came to the conclusion, that I just couldn't post any of the articles, because the dates are scrambled, the translations are not legible, and ended up closing out the whole search.

I would look for something in your native language, or mine regarding Japan. The translations are just too unreliable.

[Rainbow Lake]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

Try searching The Japan Times or the Mainichi Daily News, the two major English language papers in Japan.

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/index.html

http://japantimes.co.jp

I found this article by searching The Japan Times

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091025a7.html#

Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009


H1N1 vaccine side effects reported
Kyodo News
Seven of the 22,000 medical workers vaccinated against H1N1 swine flu have developed side effects, the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry said.

The finding, released Friday, was revealed after a four-day survey was completed Thursday to ensure the new vaccine was working on doctors and nurses at 67 designated hospitals run by the National Hospital Organization.

Four of the seven developed serious side effects, including vomiting and diminished consciousness, but all are recovering, the ministry said. The other three complained of minor symptoms, such as developing hives.

Meanwhile, other hospitals reported that 25 patients were exhibiting adverse effects from the new vaccine, including two serious cases.

The ministry said half of the 32 people who developed symptoms were found to have food and drug allergies or allergic asthma.

The survey will be followed by large-scale vaccinations of the general public in November, with priority given to people at high risk of developing complications from the flu.

[Rainbow Lake]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

rough translation....

Mainichi Shimbun October 23, 2009 13:32


National Institute of Infectious Diseases December 23, 5000 about
the number of national reports submitted from hospitals of patients
with influenza places, 12 to 18 days in a week announced climbed
to 17.65 per facility. Most are believed to pandemic influenza, last
week was the highest since the summer started a new trend (5 to
11) of 12.92 was updated.
Estimated number of patients is about 83 million, an increase from
approximately 64 million people last week.
By prefecture, Hokkaido has become the largest in 57.93, well
above the peak of the epidemic of last winter. The Aichi 31.78 more
in 20 prefectures including Tokyo and Osaka are also beyond 7.
Institute of Infectious Diseases is a "metropolitan and Akita are
becoming full-fledged epidemic in Okinawa" and that. Kenji Shimizu

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...B3N60LxZWIjSVw

新型インフル：大都市圏で本格流行?秋田、沖縄でも
　国立感染症研究所は２３日、全国約５０００カ所の医療機関から寄せられたインフルエンザ患者の報告数が、 １２～１８日の１週間で１施設当たり１７．６５に上ったと発表した。大半は新型インフルエンザとみられ、新 型の流行が始まった今夏以降で最多だった前週（５～１１日）の１２．９２を更新した。

　推計患者数は約８３万人で、前週の約６４万人から増加した。

　都道府県別では、北海道が５７．９３で最多となり、昨冬の流行のピークを上回った。愛知が３１．７８で続 き、東京や大阪など７都府県も２０を超えている。感染研は「大都市圏や秋田、沖縄でも本格的な流行となって きている」としている。【清水健二】

Commonground....my Japanese is a bit rusty, but I hunted up the article. First of all, it should be 830,000 (and not 83 million) which increased from 640,000 (not 64 million).

I will look over the full article tomorrow and try and polish the machine translation. Japan has 127 million people, but the articles on H1N1 I first saw did not reflect the level of anxiety reflected in the machine translation numbers.

[tropical]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

RainbowL., #4:
"The ministry said half of the 32 people who developed symptoms were found to have food and drug allergies or allergic asthma."

Thank you RainbowLake and Commonground.

So, this class of citizens must be carefull,
hopefully when on large scale,
they stil could take a vacc. if neccessary.

#5: ... "it should be 830,000 (and not 83 million) which increased from 640,000 (not 64 million)"

So the machine tran. milions numbers are 10 times less than.
If it's so, ~1 milion of actualy infected is stil a considerable number.

___
Could we multiplicate the infected registered patients number 10 times,
because of the silent spreaders and light cases,
than we reach 8 milions of potentialy affected cases now ... (?)

[Rainbow Lake]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

rough translation....

Mainichi Shimbun October 23, 2009 13:32


National Institute of Infectious Diseases December 23, 5000 about
the number of national reports submitted from hospitals of patients
with influenza places, 12 to 18 days in a week announced climbed
to 17.65 per facility. Most are believed to pandemic influenza, last
week was the highest since the summer started a new trend (5 to
11) of 12.92 was updated.
Estimated number of patients is about 83 million, an increase from
approximately 64 million people last week.
By prefecture, Hokkaido has become the largest in 57.93, well
above the peak of the epidemic of last winter. The Aichi 31.78 more
in 20 prefectures including Tokyo and Osaka are also beyond 7.
Institute of Infectious Diseases is a "metropolitan and Akita are
becoming full-fledged epidemic in Okinawa" and that. Kenji Shimizu

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...B3N60LxZWIjSVw

Here is a more polished translation (though likely not perfect as I am not a native speaker of Japanese)

New Flu: Full-fledged Epidemic in the Osaka Metropolitan Area?as well as Akita, Okinawa

On the 23rd (October), the National Institute of Infectious Diseases announced that based on the reports from 5,000 nationwide treatment facilities, from the 12th to the 18th of October, the number of flu patients had risen to 17.65 per facility.

The majority of these are seen as being the new influenza and this was the largest number seen since the beginning of the new (H1N1) epidemic and topped the highest level of 12.92 (patients per facility) seen last week.

This has increased from last week?s 640,000 patients to about 830,000 patients.

Looking at the prefectures, Hokkaido has the highest with 57.93 (patients per facility) which has exceeded last year?s epidemic peak.

Aichi remains the same with 31.78, Tokyo and Osaka and 7 cities/towns/prefectures were over 20 (patients per treatment facility).

According to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, ?It has become a full-fledged epidemic in the Osaka metropolitan area, Akita, and also Okinawa.? [author?s name]

[Commonground]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

Thank you Rainbow Lake.

[Snowy Owl]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

Machine translation error it is not 83 millions but 83 thousands

Snowy

[tropical]

Re: New Flu: full-scale epidemic in the metropolitan areas ... Akita, also in Okinawa

Machine translation error it is not 83 millions but 83 thousands

Snowy

Hello Snowy,

could it be assesed the input numbers source of the cited summed number?


Is the (below 100 thousands) number of patients/cases a result of:


1. ___

(5000 x 17.65) = 88.250

from inputs cited in the post #1 machine translation:

"Mainichi Shimbun October 23, 2009 13:32

National Institute of Infectious Diseases December 23, 5000 about
the number of national reports submitted from hospitals of patients
with influenza places, 12 to 18 days in a week announced climbed
to 17.65 per facility ."


2. ___

another source of number cases = 83.000


or this number is 10x more:

3. ___

it is the machine second polished translation number from the statement #7 ?

830.000

#7:
"This has increased from last week’s 640,000 patients to about 830,000 patients.

___


830.000 is stil huge, but 83.000 is relatively small considering the early dissemination there.