A Long Battle Ahead of Us

You must have asked “when are all these going to end?” Number of confirmed cases for the influenza A (H1N1) virus seemed to reach new high every week and confirmed cases began to appear in countries where they never had the H1N1 virus before.

The H1N1 had traveled across from Ontario to Japan as three people who returned to Japan from a High School visit in Canada were tested positive for the H1N1 virus, making Japan to report the H1N1 for the first time. As the confirmed cases seemed to be unusually high in this flight, 49 other passengers who took the same flight from Detroit to Tokyo were also needed to be quarantined.

Meanwhile, China reported its first confirmed case of the influenza A (H1N1) virus. A 30-year old man who returned from St. Louis, Missouri, the United States to Beijing via Tokyo developed a fever after he had landed in Beijing and made a local fight connection to Chengdu. He felt ill on the local fight and went straight to the hospital for treatment and he was later confirmed as a mild case of H1N1. Officials tracked down other passengers on the same fight for quarantine.