DEC. 2009

No.67

LIVING GUIDE MORIOKA
MORIOKA INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ASSOCIATION〒 020-8531 MORIOKA-SHI WAKAZONO-CHO 2-18
TEL 019-626-7524

e-mail moriintl@nifty.com
http://www.e-morioka.com/~moriintl/top.html

Watch Out for H1N1 Flu!

Symptoms
Fever, joint ache, feeling sluggish, coughing,runny nose, sore throat, headache and diarrhea
are major ﬂu symptoms.
They appear one to four (up to seven) days
after you get infected with ﬂu virus. The virus
is infectious for about a week from the day
before you develop symptoms.

Not to get infected
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Wash your hands frequently.
Wash your hands with soap after you gethome, before you eat or cook, and after
you sneeze or blow your nose. When water
is not available, disinfection using rubbing
alcohol (surgical spirit) works as well.
When you cough or sneeze
Turn your face away from people aroundyou, cover your mouth or face with Kleenex
tissue and wash your hands afterwards.
Try not to touch our eyes, nose or mouth
To prevent the virus on your hands fromentering your body.
Avoid going outside unless you need to.
Children, elderly people and others whoare vulnerable to ﬂue due to their weaker
immune system should avoid crowds.
Wear a facial mask to prevent the virus from
infecting others.
Wear a mask when going to your doctor
or hospital due to ﬂu-like symptoms. Keepthe mask on at home, too, if you cough.
Check your physical conditions by suchmeans as taking your temperature.

Go to your doctor if you:
＊ Child・breathe fast, feel choked
・look pale・vomit or suﬀer from continued diarrhea
・look uneasy, don't play as usual, areslow to react・have worsening symptoms＊ Adult
・ﬁnd it hard to breathe, lose your breath・suﬀer from continued chest pain
・vomit or suﬀer from continued diarrhea
・have fever for three days or more・have worsening symptoms

l Your symptoms could get serious if you
are pregnant, elderly or infant, who havea weaker immune system, or you havesuch diseases as diabetes, heart diseases,
respiratory disease such as asthma or
kidney failure. Go and consult with yourdoctor as early as possible when you ﬁnd
yourself having any of the symptoms
above.

Call your family doctor before going to a hospital＊ Call your family doctor ﬁrst, if you have one.
＊ If you don't have a family doctor, call thehospital you are going to beforehand andtell that you want to go because you have
ﬂu-like symptoms such as fever.
＊ Do as you are told by the doctor. Put on amask when going to the hospital. If you do
not know which hospital you should go,
contact one of the consultation services
below.

H1N1 Flue Consultation Services＊ Preservation of Health Division of Morioka
City Health Center (Moriokashi Hokenjo
Hoken Yoboka )Phone: 019-603-8308 （8:30 〜 17:30,
Mon.- Fri. Japanese only）＊ Health and Hygiene Division,Iwate
Prefectural Government(Iwate-ken Hoken Eiseika ）Phone:019-629-5472（9:00 〜 17:00,
Mon.-Fri. non-Japanese-language
service is available.）
Iwate Prefectural Hall
* If you seek hospital information, visit
the website of Iwate Prefecture below.
http://www.med-info.pref.iwate.jp
Tohoku Electric Power（Japanese）
After Hour Emergency Clinic
Morioka City Hall
http://www2.med-info.pref.iwate.jp/iwa
Iwate Central Region Health Center
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Nakatsugawa Riverg.do（English）↑Morioka Bus Center
Bank of Iwate ↑Contact the After Hour Emergency
Clinic from19:00 through 23:00.
(Pediatrics and internal medicine:open
365 days a year)
Phone: 654-1080（Japanese only）

Someone in your family got infected?
The patient should:＊ take a lot of water and have a good sleep when
having fever, and avoid going outside untileight days after symptoms appear or two days
after the fever comes down.
＊ stay in a separate room from other familymembers if possible and stay away fromthem, or wear a mask and keep two metersfrom others when a separate room is notavailable.
＊ take the medicine your doctor or hospitalprescribed for you for the period told by thedoctor, even after your fever comes down.
＊ go to or call your doctor immediately
when having such symptoms as breathing
diﬃculty, continued high fever orgrogginess.
If your child has got infected, do not leave
him or her alone. Keep an eye on the child.
Both the patient and other family members
should wash their hands frequently and avoid
sharing a towel.

H1N1 Flue Inoculation
If you are among the priority people of the H1N1 flue Visit the websites below for more information
inoculation, you can get an inoculation to avoid death on H1N1 ﬂu in other languages than Japanese.
or serious conditions.
・http://www.pref.iwate.jp/list.rbz?nd=3265&ik
Visit the website of Morioka City below to ﬁnd out=1（Iwate Prefecture）
who the priority people are and what documents ・ http://www.clair.or.jp./j/culture/ﬂu/tage
they need to get inoculation.
ngo/index.html (CLAIR: Council of Local
・http://www.city.morioka.iwate.jp./19ho
Authorities for International Relations)kenjo/yobo/kinkyu/091102taisyou.html(Japanese)