SARS

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http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=home

The opinion of Ito-san after the article is ..

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oops..sorry, somebody say Ito-san is not Japanese.

[ramchop]

Red alert: Institutions brace for the possibility of the SARS epidemic reaching Japan.

SARS could become the first infectious disease designated under the Infectious Diseases Control Law, which went into effect in 1999. Under the provisions of that law, any patient diagnosed with a designated infectious disease is to be admitted to a medical institution designated by the central government as having the means to prevent its spread.

However, only one hospital has so far received that designation-the Izumisano municipal infectious diseases center located across Osaka Bay from Kansai International Airport. Although the International Medical Center of Japan in Tokyo is expected to receive a similar designation by the end of the year, those two medical institutions combined would have room for only six patients with the designated infectious disease.

Fucking great! I don't need to travel to Hong Kong to get sick, they'll be bringing all Tokyo cases to my workplace.

[Taro Toporific]

Red alert: Institutions brace for the possibility of the SARS epidemic reaching Japan.
Fucking great! I don't need to travel to Hong Kong to get sick, they'll be bringing all Tokyo cases to my workplace.

China Takes Issue With Health Group's Travel WarningApril 3 / New York Times
HONG KONG
...Japan, which had so far been free of the disease, reported today that 14 people may be infected, and joined many other nations and private companies in warning against travel to affected areas.
...NTT DoCoMo, the world's second-largest mobile-phone company, banned overseas business trips, while KDDI, the second-largest phone company in Japan, allowed families of overseas employees to return to Japan.
Events around the world have been delayed or canceled, including a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research scheduled for April 5 through April 9 in Toronto.