FG's spreading Black Plague in Yoyogi Park

[GomiGirl]

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.

Must have been me - I was walking through there the other day and I was bitten by many mossies - just call me typhoid mary.

[Russell]

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.

Must have been me - I was walking through there the other day and I was bitten by many mossies - just call me Typhoid Mary.

Actually, that sounds more distinguished than Gomi Girl.

[Samurai_Jerk]

mossies

God, I fucking hate Strain.

[Mike Oxlong]

mossies

God, I fucking hate Strain.

Where's our resident Strayan expert?

[Samurai_Jerk]

mossies

God, I fucking hate Strain.

Where's our resident Strayan expert?

Boston is even worse. The ugliest accent in America. I was talking about the Australian propensity for faggotty abbreviations though.

[GomiGirl]

Riding around on my bike today and thought I would cut though Chuo Koen. All blocked off with signs in English and Japanese asking to be "refrain from entering the park". There was one family with a small child in the playground which is normally swarming with kids.

Not worth the risk though.

oh and p.s. It is Strine...

[Russell]

Dengue spreads beyond two Tokyo parks

Evidence emerged Saturday that dengue fever is spreading throughout the capital after an infected Tokyo man said he hadn’t recently visited either of the parks so far linked to the virus, and the case tally grew overnight to 74.

The man, in his 60s, said he did not recently visit either Yoyogi Park or Shinjuku Chuo Park, the two hot spots identified as having mosquitoes carrying the virus, the health ministry said.

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[Mike Oxlong]

History repeats itself...

http://northsouthconnect.blogspot.jp/20 ... gence.html

[matsuki]

Dengue spreads beyond two Tokyo parks

Evidence emerged Saturday that dengue fever is spreading throughout the capital after an infected Tokyo man said he hadn’t recently visited either of the parks so far linked to the virus, and the case tally grew overnight to 74.

The man, in his 60s, said he did not recently visit either Yoyogi Park or Shinjuku Chuo Park, the two hot spots identified as having mosquitoes carrying the virus, the health ministry said.

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Dengue zone!Dengue zone!Dengue zone!Dengue zone!Dengue zone!Dengue zone!Dengue zone!Dengue zone!Dengue zone!

[Mike Oxlong]

The war on greenery continues. Nature is dangerous. It is best contained when covered in grey, comforting concrete.

[Russell]

The war on greenery continues. Nature is dangerous. It is best contained when covered in grey, comforting concrete.

Which is still to be preferred over grey, uncomforting concrete...

[Mike Oxlong]

In the war on concrete, NK is the Charlie Sheen of the scene...winning!

[yanpa]

Scenes from an earlier outbreak of Deng Fever in the USA.

deng-xiaoping.jpg

[matsuki]

In the war on concrete, NK is the Charlie Sheen of the scene...winning!

They set the bar even lower than China...

[wagyl]

Scenes from an earlier outbreak of Deng Fever in the USA.

Rumour has it that Tony Blair caught a variation of that.

[Samurai_Jerk]

oh and p.s. It is Strine...

Yeah, but you'd pronounce it the same either way.

[omae mona]

Oh boy. Now we have a male resident of Chiba city infected. He claims not to have been anywhere in Tokyo or overseas.

Sorry, no news link yet (just a special 号外 alert on http://www.asahi.com).

[matsuki]

It's spreading pretty quick...any news of spraying for the lil fuckers yet?

[Mike Oxlong]

81 dengue fever cases reported in 15 prefectures

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Tuesday that the number of reported dengue fever cases stood at 81 in 15 prefectures as of Tuesday morning.

The ministry is working with Tokyo metropolitan government health officials to spray insecticide in three parks in Tokyo, where the disease spread by mosquitoes, is believed to have originated, TV Asahi reported.

Since the weekend, parts of Yoyogi, Shinjuku Gyoen and Meijijingu Gaien parks have been closed to the public, resulting in the cancellation of many events.

On Tuesday, the metropolitan government began spraying insecticide in more parks—Sotobori Park (Chiyoda Ward), Komazawa Park (Setagaya Ward) and Shiba-Koen Park (Minato Ward) to eradicate mosquitoes, TV Asahi reported.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/nati ... refectures

[matsuki]

Is there an evil FG terrorist conspiracy theory at work yet?

[Yokohammer]

Is there an evil FG terrorist conspiracy theory at work yet?

The mosquitos are actually miniature drones operated from a bunker somewhere in Toyohashi.*


* Which of course is the real reason we haven't heard much from the Frog Division since this Dengue thing broke ...

[Mike Oxlong]

Shouldn't be if they have an epidemiologist worth his/her salt, and actually listen to them (ok, the likelihood of both of those happening is relatively low). These things are rarely eradicated per se, just driven so deep underground that they become rare. Have a wet year or two, especially over wide swaths of the country, and bang. A comeback. No need for a foreign origin myth. But oh so much more comforting.

[matsuki]

But oh so much more comforting.

TIJ, that there overrides all logic

[Russell]

Is there an evil FG terrorist conspiracy theory at work yet?

The mosquitos are actually miniature drones operated from a bunker somewhere in Toyohashi.*


* Which of course is the real reason we haven't heard much from the Frog Division since this Dengue thing broke ...

[Mike Oxlong]

Speaking of epidemiologists, Obokata, and public health...only in America!

[Samurai_Jerk]

Speaking of epidemiologists, Obokata, and public health...only in America!

It was West Virginia. That doesn't count.

[Mike Oxlong]

Then on to Virginia, Washington...if it had stayed in W.Va. ok, but it's still in play all over the region, his student without Ph.D. doing post-doc in Texas, and so on.

[Taro Toporific]

Japan dengue fever infections pass 100
skynews.com Friday, 12 September 2014
More than 100 people have contracted dengue fever in Japan, in the first domestic outbreak of the disease in 70 years, the government says.
There were now 103 confirmed cases, the Health Ministry said on Thursday, almost all of whom had visited the apparent centre of the outbreak, Yoyogi Park in central Tokyo.
- See more at: http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/as ... s-100.html

[matsuki]

Last I heard, they've only sprayed a small area near the entrance of the park

...and all the lemurs seem to be carrying around bug spray haha DEET bitches!

[Taro Toporific]

via-- Accentuate The Positive: Japan's dengue fever outbreak not at public health failure, it's a pharmaceutical opportunity!

Japanese drugmakers get serious about tackling dengue
asia.nikkei.com / Sept. 16, 2014
TOKYO/JAKARTA --Pharmaceutical companies have largely been unwilling to develop vaccines and treatment for dengue fever, citing small demand due to the disease primarily occurring in emerging nations. But as the disease spreads, with the current outbreak in Japan already topping 100 cases, major drugmakers are now rushing to meet the need...
...Despite the huge number of sufferers, effective drugs and vaccines have not yet been commercially produced because dengue is prevalent chiefly in developing countries with relatively small markets. Japan's major drugmakers have focused on exploring the domestic and Western markets, putting treatment of epidemics in emerging nations on the back burner.
But as sales of their mainstay drugs, such as those for diabetes and hypertension, show signs of declining in developed countries, Japanese pharmaceutical companies are finally turning their attention to the developing world.
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