On May 10, 8:48 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Marvel wrote:
> > Could anyone be so kind as to direct me to Japanese text explaining the
> > Swine Influenza.
>
> > ...Just trying to explain the recent outbreak and symptoms etc...
>
> > Thanks...
>
> Apparently, you now have your wish.  A bunch of high school kids coming
> back from a student exchange trip to Canada seem to have brought back a
> planeload of Type 1.  Three in confinement, 49 in quarantine ... 33 in
> the school group, 16 passengers seated around them, and the cabin crew.

Ooooh! Lemme guess, lemme guess, lemme guess - the nationality of all
of them.

Um, Japanese?

One of our recent arrivals (no fever, no symptoms, more than 14 days
in country) decided out of some misguided public spiritness to have a
check up - "just in case". An ambulance arrived within minutes, with 5
fucking staff, dressed in what could have been NBC (nuclear/biological/
chemical) suits back in the day before Hollywood got slightly more
paranoid than before. Less than 30 minutes later, a journalist from
the Chunichi Shimbun rings us up (either they monitor the radios or
hospital staff inform them) demanding to know where the student lived,
what the address of the accommodation was etc etc. I stone walled the
arsehole and when the "insei" was declared about 20 minutes later,
wanted to either abuse the bastard or kick him in the nuts, but
instead had to placate the cunt.

> We've received a call from the local PTA that one passenger was from
> Ibaraki and was released to spread the contagion up here.

Would be nice to see Ibaraki in the news though.