The new style influenza

This year, the news style influenza was born. The news style influenza was named "Swine Flu".
First, this disease is epidemic which means is when a large number of people get the same disease over the same period of time. However, WHO which is World Health Organization pulled up level of caution. Swine flu became pandemic which means is occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world. Pandemic is stronger than epidemic.

There is 1336 people infected in Japan, and there are 77201 people infected around the world. In addition, 332 people died by swine flu as of 16:00 p.m. on July.2, 2009. There are many infected person except Aomori, Yamagata,Fukui prefecture in Japan.

The symptom of swine flu is fever over 38 degrees, cough, chills, headache and nasal mucus etc.... It take one to seven days to show symptoms of swine flu since someone infected. If you fit these symptoms, you must call "fever consultation center", and then you do not go to hospital because it is possible to give someone your virus.