Today I attended a meeting at my hospital about Tamiflu, which is a specific remedy for influenza. All the doctors and pharmacists learned the effects and side-effects of Tamiflu from the medical representative. This year the Japanese government is concerned about a new type of influenza mutated from bird flu. It's going to prepare a stockpile of Tamiflu, but the preparation schedule has gone behind because of being short of Tamiflu. In Japan the outbreak of flu will be in January. I feel depressed to think of it. I'm a surgeon, but in the season of the outbreak I have got to be a physician, sitting among coughing patients to help my physician colleagues.
The Chinese authority says, "the Avian flu has infected pigs in China." Pigs and humans are alike from the genetic point of view, though China is the kind of country that is hard to believe.
When Spanish flu broke out in 1918, 40 million people died all over the world. Spanish flu mutated from bird flu in Southern China so the present situation is just the same as in 1918.
Anyway this winter we have to take care not to catch a cold.
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Tonight, a farewell party will be held. One of my nursery staff is going to quit, get married, and move to Tokyo. Let's have a beer!!!
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