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TOKYO, May 17 (Xinhua) -- The number of domestic infections cases of influenza A/H1N1 in Japan hit 40 on Sunday after a total of 32 people in Osaka and Hyogo prefectures were confirmed to have been infected.
The total number of the infection in the country now stands at 44, including the first four cases contracted abroad.
The country is now facing the risk of grass-root outbreak which could lead the WHO to raise its new flu pandemic alert to the highest level of 6 from the current 5, experts has warned.
The 32 newly confirmed domestic cases, nine in Osaka and 23 in Hyogo, included high school students, college students and teachers, the health ministry and local governments said Sunday.
Japan on Saturday confirmed the first eight cases of domestic infection on students of a Kobe high school. The later confirmed cases in Osaka are said to have contacted the Kobe students in a volleyball match.
All of the 40 people had no record of overseas travel.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/17/content_11390062.htm
The total number of the infection in the country now stands at 44, including the first four cases contracted abroad.
The country is now facing the risk of grass-root outbreak which could lead the WHO to raise its new flu pandemic alert to the highest level of 6 from the current 5, experts has warned.
The 32 newly confirmed domestic cases, nine in Osaka and 23 in Hyogo, included high school students, college students and teachers, the health ministry and local governments said Sunday.
Japan on Saturday confirmed the first eight cases of domestic infection on students of a Kobe high school. The later confirmed cases in Osaka are said to have contacted the Kobe students in a volleyball match.
All of the 40 people had no record of overseas travel.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/17/content_11390062.htm