Tshoo! IT’s Flu Season

by CityNews

 

 

CityNews – There has been a surge in influenza in Chiang Mai with over 4,500 cases found so far this year. More than 10% of students in Montfort Primary School were infected recently causing the school to close down Mathayom 1 to 3 (7th to 9th grades) for five days.

 

According to the Chiang Mai Provincial Public Health Office’s announcement on August 24th, the rate of influenza is at 283 per one hundred thousand and no death has been reported. Patients are mostly found in Sansai, Muang and Doi Saket districts.

 

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-- © Copyright Chiang City News 2017-8-25

Myself and everyone I know all have 'chronic' problems now.

Sniffles and generating 'Flem' in my case.

 

john

What a plague the flu is!!!...the European influenzas like to attack in winter and the Thai influenzas in August!!

The H1N1 flu of 1918 killed apx. 675,000 people in one year, One third of the worlds population.  Hopefully we never see something like that again... https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

On 29/08/2017 at 10:24 AM, joeyg said:

The H1N1 flu of 1918 killed apx. 675,000 people in one year, One third of the worlds population.  Hopefully we never see something like that again... https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/

You are like my wife, you have a problem with powers of ten. In 1918 the world population might have been two billions people not 2 millions...

1 hour ago, KiChakayan said:

You are like my wife, you have a problem with powers of ten. In 1918 the world population might have been two billions people not 2 millions...

Thanks for the math check. Billion"s" / Million"s" H1N1 influenza virus.^[1] It infected 500 million people around the world,^[2] including remote Pacific islands and the Arctic, and resulted in the deaths of 50 to 100 million (three to five percent of the world's population^[3]), making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in human