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Posted by Joelseah on July 18, 2009
Folks, as we all know, H1N1 is still very much a threat. So as Mr Brown says, when you wash your body, was your hands too. Watch this video, it’s hilarious! =)
Note: This song was taken from the hit by the Wonder Girls, which has been making waves on Youtube. If you have not seen the original version, you can search for Nobody by Wonder Girls on Youtube.
Posted by Joelseah on May 11, 2009
If you’ve been to hospitals or polyclinics recently, you would have seen many people wearing masks. Apparently, what the medical staff do is to take your temperature before you enter the premise, and if you have a cold or a cough (or anything that may be contagious), they’ll give you a mask to put on.
So the mask is there for obvious reasons. It is to prevent the spread of viruses. What disturbs me is when I walk past Sengkang Polyclinic, I see the masks all over the grass patches just outside the polyclinic. Here is one example of the many masks on the ground:
Food for thought: If the masks are gonna end up on the ground, then why bother issuing it in the first place? Wouldn’t this create a greater danger instead?
Posted by Joelseah on May 3, 2009
Read in the papers about the Metropark Hotel in Wan Chai, Hong Kong. Apparently, there was a Mexican guest staying in the hotel who happened to be Asia’s first confirmed H1N1 case (The Swine flu has since been renamed as Influenza A, the virus is known as the H1N1 virus).
So the police have sealed off the hotel, and ordered approximately 200 guests and 100 staff to stay in the hotel for the next seven days. Guests who were out of the hotel when the lockdown began were told that if they re-entered the hotel, they would not be allowed to leave. So many of them are kinda stranded outside the hotel since their luggages and passports are inside the hotel.
Kinda interesting that the Hong Kong authorities are taking such actions. What’s gonna happen to those who were in the same flight or public transport as the Mexican tourist? Considering that Influenza A is most infectious at the beginning, will they hunt down all those who could have been in contact and quarantine them too? *ponder*
Here’s another interesting sidenote: You might remember the Sars outbreak in 2003? According to the papers, the scene of the Sars outbreak took place at another Metropark hotel. That time, a doctor from Guangzhou who treated Sars patient in China had travelled to Hong Kong and stayed at the Metropole in Kowloon. Needless to say, he infected a number of people there, including three woman from Singapore. That hotel has since been renamed as Metropark Hotel Kowloon.
Posted by Joelseah on April 30, 2009
The biggest news in the papers today is all about the swine flu. Apparently, this new virus is even more dangerous than Sars because it attacks silently.
According to the papers, one in three victims does not even show any flu symptoms like sneezing or high temperature. And because this virus is at its most contagious 24 hours before any signs surface, it is likely we could be passing it on before we even realise we’ve got it.
We’re better prepared for this as compared to Sars though. So expect temperature checks at places like polyclinics, hospitals, airports, schools, army camps. Which means if you have any appointments, be sure to allow extra time for queuing up.
Anyway, here are some additional stuff about the Swine flu from the papers:
