FG's spreading Black Plague in Yoyogi Park

[GomiGirl]

Tokyo’s Yoyogi to Be Fumigated After 3 Contract Dengue

Yoyogi Koen, one of the largest and most popular parks in central Tokyo, will be fumigated after three people diagnosed with dengue fever said they were bitten by mosquitoes there.

The two women and one man who contracted the disease are acquaintances and are the first domestic cases of dengue fever since the 1940s, according to a Health Ministry statement. A sample of mosquitoes collected at the park didn’t carry the virus, according to the statement.

Dengue is transmitted by the bite of an infected mosquito and can’t be spread directly from person to person. It causes flu-like symptoms and high fevers. There are more than 50 to 100 million cases of dengue worldwide each year and 3 billion people living in dengue endemic countries, according to the World Health Organization’s website.

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My fave bit...

Yoyogi covers 54 hectares (134 acres) of parkland, including fields, ponds and trees, and gets thousands of visitors every weekend. The health ministry suspects that domestic mosquitoes picked up the virus from people who arrived from elsewhere.

THE FG's DID BRUNG IT.

Then this little tidbit...

Shares of insecticide maker Fumakilla Ltd. (4998) surged 24 percent in Tokyo trading today. Rivals Earth Chemical Co. rose 8.1 percent and SDS Biotech K.K. (4952) gained 14 percent.

[yanpa]

Well, who doesn't go straight to Yoyogi Park on arrival and infect the flora and fauna with exotic diseases?

[Samurai_Jerk]

If you've eradicated a disease in one country that's common it other parts of the world, I think it's reasonable to suspect it might have been reintroduced by someone visiting from abroad.

[yanpa]

In all fairness, one of the TV channels did say it could have been transmitted either by a foreigner or a Japanese person returning from dengue-infected gaikoku.

[matsuki]

Is it just me or does 3 people seem a little too low to be news/panic worthy? (not that I mind any excuse for eradicating mosquitoes)

On the other hand, I've been berated by a friend and her family for the past few weeks because I refused to go near her while she had pink eye. (Conjunctivitis) I had a big trip planned right after so my mindset pretty much was, fuck risking a pink eye. Maybe I'm dating myself but I think it's still SOP in the US to send home kids from school and to not go into work if you got the pink eye? (super contagious)

"Silly gaijin! Such an overreaction! Conjunctivitis isn't that easy to transmit! None of us got it and we live with her!!"

The CDC doesn't seem to agree with that but hey, what do they know?

[GomiGirl]

Pink eye is very contagious but you should also remember that soap is a fabulous prevention tool for many communicable diseases above the waist.

My kid has just had tobihi which is also super contagious. We just washed his sheets, towels and PJ's daily and washed with soap after applying the medicine and there was no spreading to the rest of the household fortunately. Good hygiene habits are the best prevention.

[matsuki]

Pink eye is very contagious but you should also remember that soap is a fabulous prevention tool for many communicable diseases above the waist.

My kid has just had tobihi which is also super contagious. We just washed his sheets, towels and PJ's daily and washed with soap after applying the medicine and there was no spreading to the rest of the household fortunately. Good hygiene habits are the best prevention.

No doubt being careful works, just didn't want to risk it with the schedule I had afterwards. (but didn't expect the "we Japanese" type reaction to this shit)

[Dreamy_Peach]

This was the excuse they were looking for to concrete over and develop this park. Just you wait.

[Taro Toporific]

Dengue fever strikes 2 models in Yoyogi Park
JAPAN TODAY -- SEP 03
A worsening outbreak of dengue fever in Japan has claimed its first celebrities-two young models sent on assignment to the Tokyo park believed to be its source.
The details emerged as the government said Tuesday that at least 34 people have now caught the disease, which has not been seen in Japan for seven decades apart from cases contracted overseas.
The two women-Saaya, 20, and Eri Aoki, 25-were sent to Yoyogi Park last month for the Saturday variety show on which they appeared...more...

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[Yokohammer]

Dengue fever strikes 2 models in Yoyogi Park
JAPAN TODAY -- SEP 03
A worsening outbreak of dengue fever in Japan has claimed its first celebrities-two young models sent on assignment to the Tokyo park believed to be its source.
The details emerged as the government said Tuesday that at least 34 people have now caught the disease, which has not been seen in Japan for seven decades apart from cases contracted overseas.
The two women-Saaya, 20, and Eri Aoki, 25-were sent to Yoyogi Park last month for the Saturday variety show on which they appeared...more...

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So ... dengue fever is sorta related to YBF?

[matsuki]

I don't need to be a mosquito to want to stick those two...

[Russell]

I have been wondering whether Coligny got Dengue fever from an event in Yoyogi park...

[yanpa]

If he'd ventured that far out of the Little T I'm sure we'd be aware of it.

I think they said on the news outbreaks had been detected elsewhere in Japan? Maybe it was enough to trip his apocalypse survival mode trigger, as Ebola surely can't be far behind.

[Hijinx]

And I thought this thread was about Nigerian touts expanding their area.

[matsuki]

And I thought this thread was about Nigerian touts expanding their area.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Dengue fever strikes 2 models in Yoyogi Park
JAPAN TODAY -- SEP 03
A worsening outbreak of dengue fever in Japan has claimed its first celebrities-two young models sent on assignment to the Tokyo park believed to be its source.
The details emerged as the government said Tuesday that at least 34 people have now caught the disease, which has not been seen in Japan for seven decades apart from cases contracted overseas.
The two women-Saaya, 20, and Eri Aoki, 25-were sent to Yoyogi Park last month for the Saturday variety show on which they appeared...more...

bikini-bimbos.jpg

Is one of those chicks the big boobed 11 year old that was getting Chinese men hard years ago?

[matsuki]

Apparently they only sprayed the small entrance area of the park checked, and found there were many more infected demon spawn all over the area

For all the mosquito spray they sell here and all the spotted up lemur legs I see, do any of the wards, cities, etc. do regular spraying?

[omae mona]

Park is now closed for the time being, other than certain designated areas such as the soccer field.

[dimwit]

Is one of those chicks the big boobed 11 year old that was getting Chinese men hard years ago?

Yep

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saaya_Irie

After making her debut as a gravure idol, she still lived in Fukuoka Prefecture where she attended elementary school and middle school, but moved to Tokyo when she turned 16. In August 2014, she was one of the few people contracting Dengue fever during the 2014 Dengue fever outbreak.

[GomiGirl]

Mosquitoes all over the city have been especially vicious this year IMHO. Everytime I am putting my bike away, I am getting eaten by the mossies.

Sadly I live in Yoyogi...

[wagyl]

Mosquitoes all over the city have been especially vicious this year IMHO. Everytime I am putting my bike away, I am getting eaten by the mossies.

Sadly I live in Yoyogi...

I seem to recall that you've spent some of your life in Qld so you have been at risk already, and seem to have survived so far. Not to mention travel in South East Asia. Sure, if you go on to develop haemorrhagic symptoms (and children and the elderly are at increased risk) it is time for a Coligny wet dream, but most of the time it goes no further than fever, headache, vomiting, a nasty red rash and lethargy. i.e., usual Queenslander behaviour.

Depending on your viewpoint, the WHO media page is a good starting point to read up on scientific and medical thought, or a source of propaganda to mollify the public and suppress panic.

[Mike Oxlong]

Dengue woman
Stay away from me
Dengue woman
Stay away from me
You got your fever and you rush
Over me

That's why
Everyday you bring me misery
Everyday you give me misery
I think about jumpin'
Jumpin' in the deep blue see

You got me all crazy
I can't get outta bed
Bones are achin'
Bad thought in my head
Dengue woman
Stay away from me
I've got your aches and things
Over me

[matsuki]

Park is now closed for the time being, other than certain designated areas such as the soccer field.

Not according to what I got this morning..

Security Message for U.S. Citizens: Outbreak of Dengue Fever
US Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
September 5, 2014


The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo alerts U.S. citizens to the recent outbreak of dengue fever in Japan, the first since 1945. Japanese media recently reported that 36 people who had not traveled out of Japan have contracted dengue fever. Some people are believed to have been infected while walking in Tokyo’s Yoyogi Park. Insecticide spraying was immediately initiated to eliminate mosquitoes. Currently, Yoyogi Park remains open but cautions park visitors to wear long-sleeved shirts and pants and to use insect repellent.

Dengue fever is a viral illness transmitted by the Aedes aegypti and A. albopictus mosquitoes. These mosquitoes bite during the day, most commonly at dusk and dawn. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), symptoms of dengue may include vomiting, high fever, severe headaches, pain behind the eyes, extreme muscle and joint pain, rash, and mild bleeding (mild to severe or easy bruising). There is no specific treatment or vaccine for dengue fever. Persons exhibiting symptoms should seek the attention of a medical doctor immediately. Upon your return to the United States, if you develop fever within two weeks of travel to Japan, you should specify to your health care provider that you have been to a dengue zone.

Prevention of dengue infection is focused on reducing mosquito exposure by using repellents, covering exposed skin by wearing long sleeves and long pants, treating clothing and tents with permethrin, and sleeping in screened or air conditioned rooms. The CDC recommends that U.S. citizens carry and use CDC-recommended insect repellents containing DEET, picaridin, IR3535, and some oil of lemon eucalyptus and para-menthane-diol products provide longer-lasting protection. To optimize safety and effectiveness, repellents should be used according to the label instructions. DEET in combination with sunscreens may be less effective and is generally not recommended.

To obtain Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) travel notices, call the CDC at 1-800-CDC-INFO (1-800-232-4636) from within the United States, or 1-404-639-3534 from overseas, or visit the CDC website at: http://www.cdc.gov/dengue/.

All the J-people that are talking about this are "embarrassed" that Japan is now considered a "dengue zone." If anything, maybe they'll actually start spraying for the lil fuckers.

[yanpa]

Clearly the US Embassy has better sources than all the TV stations showing footage of a very closed partk.

Anyway, according to this report someone has evidently picked it up from Shinjuku Chuo-Koen (that rectangular park/homeless camp behind the Tocho towers). GG might like to take note.

[matsuki]

Clearly the US Embassy has better sources than all the TV stations showing footage of a very closed partk.

Dang!! You mean their advice to "wear long-sleeved shirts and pants and to use insect repellent" might not be so great either?

Anyway, according to this report someone has evidently picked it up from Shinjuku Chuo-Koen (that rectangular park/homeless camp behind the Tocho towers). GG might like to take note.

Even Korea sprays for Mosquitoes (and the children are encouraged to play in the fog )

[yanpa]

Clearly the US Embassy has better sources than all the TV stations showing footage of a very closed partk.

Dang!! You mean their advice to "wear long-sleeved shirts and pants and to use insect repellent" might not be so great either?

Full-body Hijab is the only way to go

[Mike Oxlong]

DDT.

...Part of what made DDT appealing was its broad spectrum — it can kill not just one or two but hundreds of insect species (not to mention various other types of wildlife, especially fish, if you aren't careful about overspraying or runoff into streams). Carson took this fact and ran with it, rhetorically speaking — she claimed that DDT and other pesticides would destroy all living things, and that they should properly be termed "biocides." In the chapter from which Silent Spring takes its title, she paints an apocalyptic picture of an environment bereft of life due to chemical pollution, in which "no birds sing." Among other things, the book claims that DDT interferes with bird reproduction and causes cancer in humans; after its publication the chemical was linked to the thinning of eggshells in some avian species. The Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970, in no small part due to Silent Spring, and two years later DDT became the first chemical it banned. Most other industrialized nations followed suit, and pressured third world countries to do the same.

Many of Carson's claims were overblown. While DDT is highly toxic to insects and fish and can poison other animals in large enough doses, in moderate amounts it's not especially harmful to birds and mammals, including humans. (Ironically, the EPA's own judge agreed, but was overruled by its chief administrator.) No one has conclusively proved that DDT can give you cancer. The cause of eggshell thinning is likewise poorly understood.

On the other hand, DDT is demonstrably effective at controlling the mosquitoes and other insects that transmit malaria and typhus. Thanks principally to DDT, in the years after World War II malaria was eradicated in the U.S. and sharply curtailed in many tropical countries. Venezuela recorded eight million cases of malaria in 1943; by 1958 that number was down to eight hundred. The World Health Organization estimates that DDT saved 50 to 100 million lives during this period, and that's just counting malaria prevention. In recent years, however, the disease has staged a comeback. Globally it quadrupled during the 1990s, and it's even reappeared sporadically in the United States. The resurgence of malaria is due to a variety of factors, including changes in land use and possibly climate, and some experts say the phasing out of DDT is one of them.

I don't mean to suggest that DDT is benign. On the contrary, it's a potent contact poison, and though it breaks down quickly in sunlight, it's much more persistent in soil and water and accumulates in plants and fatty animal tissues with long-term exposure.

But its drawbacks have to be weighed against its benefits. Malaria currently infects 300 to 500 million people annually, mostly in Africa, and causes as many as 2.7 million deaths. Alternative methods of mosquito control cost more and are less effective. Some 400 scientists and doctors have signed a petition opposing the inclusion of DDT among the 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to be banned under a United Nations treaty now up for ratification, and a few public health experts are campaigning to bring DDT back. DDT isn't a panacea; India, which still uses it, suffered nasty outbreaks of malaria in the 90s, and insects in many parts of that country have become resistant to the chemical. But it remains an important tool, and in a time of rising global pestilence we shun it at our peril.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/rea ... for-humans

[Taro Toporific]

?.. according to this report someone has evidently picked it up from Shinjuku Chuo-Koen (that rectangular park/homeless camp behind the Tocho towers). GG might like to take note.

Dengue fever found in second Tokyo park
The Japan Times / SEP 5, 2014
The health ministry said Friday it has confirmed the first case of dengue fever outside Yoyogi Park in central Tokyo, where most of the cases seem to have originated. Total infections stood at 59.
A man in his 30s in Saitama Prefecture developed symptoms last Saturday and tested positive for the rare sickness on Friday after being tested a hospital by the National Institute of Infectious Diseases.
The man, who is in stable condition, has not traveled abroad or visited Yoyogi Park recently. The ministry said it appears he was infected in nearby Shinjuku Chuo Park, where he said he was bitten by mosquitoes somewhere between Aug. 18 and 26.
http://jtim.es/B7Jkx

[wangta]

Clearly the US Embassy has better sources than all the TV stations showing footage of a very closed partk.

Dang!! You mean their advice to "wear long-sleeved shirts and pants and to use insect repellent" might not be so great either?

Anyway, according to this report someone has evidently picked it up from Shinjuku Chuo-Koen (that rectangular park/homeless camp behind the Tocho towers). GG might like to take note.

Even Korea sprays for Mosquitoes (and the children are encouraged to play in the fog )

But it's okay about children playing in the fog because usually in Korea esp in some southern provinces where the folks generally are a bit challenged shall we say, socially and sometimes intellectually (not talking about the bona fide intellectually disabled here), you see children running on to roads to play near traffic with a regularity that made non Koreans scratch their heads in bewilderment when they weren't gobsmacked.

Some non Koreans say this behaviour is connected with seeking blood money but I didn't think so. It just was an example of the peasant kind of behaviour that you see down there which was fine before the age of regular motor cars and other vehicles on Korean roads. Getting back to foggy sprays, it was even better when the swine flu hysteria gripped Korea.

My principal sent in people to spray my classroom into a similar foggy state - without warning me as I sat there doing notes after classes with my students gone home. She completely refused to listen to my advice that the school was better off emphasising hand washing, desk and door handle cleaning as the virus could live on surfaces for some time, and telling the students to stop wearing masks as all they did was put them down onto the desks where the virus lived or let them fall onto the floor or let other students cough and sneeze on the masks as they were put down on desks and were then put over mouths.

For all the talk about kimchi giving the Korean teachers immunity (apparently I couldn't have immunity as I only ate kimchi during school lunch or at convenience stores in onigiri), not a few of them came down with swine flu as did many students. I didn't.

[omae mona]

Park is now closed for the time being, other than certain designated areas such as the soccer field.

Not according to what I got this morning..

Sorry guys, failed to provide a link to the news story I was referencing. Normally would have done so, but was in a hurry (can't remember but I was probably sitting on the can with a smartphone at the time). But yes, as you probably know by now, this was true.