Man tested for Ebola in Tokyo

NHK ^ | 10/27/14

[sushiman]

Officials from Japan's health ministry say they are testing a Canadian man for Ebola. The man entered Japan from the West African country of Liberia with a fever that may be a symptom of the deadly disease.

Ministry officials say they will send a sample of his blood to the National Institute of Infectious Diseases to be tested for the Ebola virus and other pathogens.

They say he will be treated at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo. The test results are due early Tuesday.

The officials say they have not yet confirmed whether the man came into contact with Ebola patients.

The officials say the man arrived at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Monday afternoon. They say he did not complain of any symptoms but that quarantine officials found he had a fever of 37.8 degrees Celsius.

The National Police Agency says the man, a 45-year-old journalist, returned to Haneda by way of Belgium and Britain after staying in Liberia for 2 months through October 18th.

Last Friday, the health ministry started checking all travelers entering Japan at quarantine stations. Officials are looking for those who stayed in any of 4 African nations suffering Ebola outbreaks within the previous 3 weeks.

Ebola has an incubation period of up to 3 weeks.

They will send those who are suspected of being infected with the virus to designated medical institutions.

[no-to-illegals]

oh boy, obala strikes worldwide.

[null and void]

No danger of it spreading in fastidious Japan, right? Right?

Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your dead! The Dark Man cometh! Bring out your......

(hat tip to: fivecatsandadog!)

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

[Christie at the beach]

Tokyo Ebola. No bans here in US from affected countries.

The gift that keeps giving though, a gift one cannot return.

[GraceG]

Japan.... Land of the prepper

http://www.japancast.net/2011/10/the-surprising-history-of-the-japanese-cold-mask/

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080606091733AAoH4Bc

In some manner I suppose...

If we started wearing cold masks people would look at us here like we grew another head.... Maybe we should start this trend....

Imagine the impact if evetrytime conservatives went out in public we wore a face mask that would really start people worrying about ebola more...

[BenLurkin]

ears are too small

[Vigilanteman]

The masks are affixed with elastic loops. They stretch. I have ears the size of H.Ross Perot and wore them when I worked in Tokyo and had a cold. It is the decent thing to do.

[caligatrux]

India.

What happens when a couple cases of ebola pop up in Delhi, or Mumbai, or Kolkata?

There are like 30,000 people per square kilometer in Mumbai. 14+ million people living within something like 190 square miles.

That's gonna be unfun.

[combat_boots]

So much for aging: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/041e8e66-5503-11e4-b616-00144feab7de.html#axzz3HNRWVOOm

[Smokin' Joe]

Ping...

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