Jan 11, 2025
Watch out for the flu!
Saw an article this morning via the Japan Times, and it was looking at the incidences of flu in the past few weeks. The last week of December was record-setting (and not in a good way), with an average of 64.39 patients seen for flu at medical clinics — that's the highest rate of flu since 1999, which is when the Ministry of Health started compiling records.
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The record rates are also three times the flu rate from the same period the previous year, so it's quite the jump.
Thankfully my household hasn't (yet!) shown any signs of sickness, but it's a reminder for me that laying low for the coming weeks might be a good idea. As much as possible, anyway! We did get the flu vaccine but I know that there are multiple strains of it, so immunization isn't a guarantee we won't get sick.
Have you been able to outrun the flu, or have you/your family/friends/coworkers already succumbed to it? Did you get the flu vaccine this year?
2 Comments
BlueButterfly
on Jan 15
Luckily we didn’t get it yet, but just got the message, that our kindergarten will be closed this week, because there are 5 case. Also, a friend's kindergarten was closed most of December because of the flu. Seems like it goes around very fast around the kids :(
genkidesu
on Jan 15
@BlueButterfly yes I feel like that's how my husband and I get sick, it always gets brought home through our kids. Thankfully it's not as bad as when they were younger, but I still think that's the main way I end up getting colds or other illnesses!