This thread is really moving fast... Took me a while to read all archive to catch up...
Im down down with flu which is terrible as alot of medicine we cannot eat nw... All MTB out there take care k cause is really spreading everywhere... I prob caught the bug fm office as immune system is nw lower and alot of ppl falling sick too... Below is today rpt on the flu suituation... Do take care CNY coming and all... Feels horrible to be sick...
Jan 21, 2011
Coughs, cold, fever at epidemic level
By Salma Khalik
Unusually large numbers of people are falling ill with sore throats, the common cold, fever and diarrhoea.
UNUSUALLY large numbers of people are falling ill with sore throats, the common cold, fever and diarrhoea - numbers large enough to classify the infections as an epidemic.
Last week, polyclinics saw more than 20,000 patients with such problems - an indication that the infections have passed the epidemic threshold and are now spreading rapidly in the community.
Polyclinics see roughly 20 per cent of primary care patients, so the Ministry of Health (MOH) uses its patient numbers to gauge the level of infectious illnesses in the country.
When the numbers at polyclinics top 17,032 cases a week in the case of acute respiratory infections (ARI), it is severe enough to be classified as an epidemic.
Last week, 18,377 patients turned up at polyclinics with ARI, a term used to cover a range of infections such as the common cold, influenza, bronchitis and pneumonia. This is almost 1,000 cases more a day than the norm.
In fact, the number of such patients at polyclinics jumped from 2,842 a day the previous week to 3,341 last week.
